The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-30982-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 52, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 545 g

Reihe: Intersections

Over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as more and more vernacular commentaries on the Decalogue were produced throughout Europe, the moral system of the Ten Commandments gradually became more prominent. The Ten Commandments proved to be a topic from which numerous proponents of pastoral and lay catechesis drew inspiration. God’s commands were discussed and illustrated in sermons and confessor’s manuals, and they spawned new theological and pastoral treatises both Catholic and Reformed. But the Decalogue also served several authors, including Dante, Petrarch, and Christine de Pizan. Unlike the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ten Commandments supported a more positive image of mankind, one that embraced the human potential for introspection and the conscious choice to follow God’s Law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Desplenter, Youri

Pieters, Jürgen

Melion, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations

Introduction: Exploring the Decalogue in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Youri Desplenter and Jürgen Pieters

1 The Ten Commandments in the Medieval Schools: Conformity or Diversity?
Lesley Smith

2 ‘Ché se potuto aveste veder tutto / mestier non era parturir Maria’: Dante on the Decalogue as a Means to Salvation
Luca Gili

3 Fit For A Prince: The Ten Alternative Commandments in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea
Charlotte E. Cooper

4 Loving Neighbor Before God: The First Commandment in Early Modern Lyric Poetry
Gregory P. Haake

5 The Ten Commandments and Pastoral Care in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Europe: An Inquiry into Expectations and Outcomes
Robert J. Bast

6 The Ten Commandments in the Thirteenth-Century Pastoral Manual Qui bene presunt
Greti Dinkova-Bruun

7 Morals from a Mystical Cook: Jan van Leeuwen and the Ten Commandments
Youri Desplenter

8 Latin Mnemonic Verses Combining the Ten Commandments with the Ten Plagues of Egypt Transmitted in Late Medieval Bohemia
Lucie Doležalová

9 The Ten Commandments in Preaching in Late Medieval Poland: ‘Sermo de praeceptis’ from Ms. 3022 at the National Library in Warsaw
Krzysztof Bracha

10 The Law Illuminated: Biblical Illustrations of the Commandments in Lutheran Catechisms
Henk van den Belt

11 Man and God: The First Three Commandments in the Polish Catholic Catechisms of the 1560s–1570s
Waldemar Kowalski

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Youri Desplenter, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Historical Dutch Literature (Middle Ages) at Ghent University. He has published on Middle Dutch religious literature, including De Bijbel in de Lage Landen. Elf eeuwen van vertalen (Heerenveen: 2015; edited with P. Gillaerts a.o.).

Jürgen Pieters, Ph.D. (2000), is Professor of Literary Theory at Ghent University. He is the author of several books on the methodology of New Historicism and of a recent monograph on Constantijn Huygens: Op zoek naar Huygens. Italiaanse leesnotities (Gent, 2014).

Walter Melion, Ph.D (1988), is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centuries, including The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550-1625 (Philadelphia: 2009).