The art of Cistercian persuasion in the Middle Ages and beyond Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogue on miracles and its reception

The art of Cistercian persuasion in the Middle Ages and beyond Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogue on miracles and its reception / edited by Victoria Smirnova, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu and Jacques Berlioz.

Focusing on the theory and practice of Cistercian persuasion, the articles gathered in this volume offer historical, literary critical and anthropological perspectives on Caesarius of Heisterbach¿́¿s Dialogus Miraculorum (thirteenth century), the context of its production and other texts directly or...

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Other Authors: Smirnova, Victoria (Editor), Polo de Beaulieu, Marie Anne (Editor), Berlioz, Jacques (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 196.
Subjects:
Caesarius, > of Heisterbach, > approximately 1180-approximately 1240. > Dialogus miraculorum.
Cistercians.
Cistercians
Dialogus miraculorum (Caesarius, of Heisterbach)
Miracles.
Exempla.
miracles.
exempla.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
Exempla
Miracles
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Manuscripts Cited ; Abbreviations; List of Contributors ; Introduction ; Part 1 The Cistercian Art of 'Making Believe' (Faire Croire); 1 The Monk Who Loved To Listen: Trying to Understand Caesarius; Part 2 In Search of a Cistercian Rhetoric; 2 To What Extent Were the Twelfth-Century Cistercians Interested in Rhetorical Treatises?; 3 Caesarius of Heisterbach Following the Rules of Rhetoric (Or Not?); 4 Visual Imagination in Religious Persuasion: Mental Imagery in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum (VIII, 31)
  • Part 3 Elaboration and Dissemination of a Narrative Theology5 Narrative Theology in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum; 6 Exempla and Historiography. Alberic of Trois-Fontaines's Reading of Caesarius's Dialogus miraculorum; Part 4 The Use of the Cistercian Heritage in Dominican Preaching; 7 The Making of a New Auctoritas: The Dialogus miraculorum Read and Rewritten by the Dominican Arnold of Liège; 8 Dialogus miraculorum: The Initial Source of Inspiration for Johannes Gobi the Younger's Scala coeli?; Part 5 The Di alogus miraculorum in Translation.
  • 9 On a Former Mayor of Deventer: Derick van den Wiel, the Devotio moderna and the Middle Dutch Translation of the Dialogus miraculorum10 The Dialogus miraculorum in the Light of Its Fifteenth-century German Translation by Johannes Hartlieb; 11 Caesarius of Heisterbach in the New Spain (1570-1770); Part 6 Roundtable: "Making Believe. Stories and Persuasion: Continuity, Reconfiguration and Disruption, Thirteenth-Twenty-first Centuries"; 12 From Caesarius to Jông Myông-Sôk: A South Korean Exemplum of a Messiah; 13 Readings/Lessons of the Exemplum; General Index.

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