Journées d’étude internationales Prédication et sacrement(s) dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge
Journées d’étude internationales Prédication et sacrement(s) dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge 18 -19 octobre 2019 – ENS de Lyon – site Descartes
Writing Religious, Transcultural, Gendered Identities and Alterities in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
Journées d’étude internationales Prédication et sacrement(s) dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge 18 -19 octobre 2019 – ENS de Lyon – site Descartes
A Call for papers is open now for the: 22nd Biennial Symposium of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society “Conversions and Life Passages through the Mirror of Medieval Preachers” Casa de Espiritualidad y Ejercicios, Virgen del Camino, León 17 July to 21 July 2020 Deadline: 30 September 2019 Send proposals to: imsss-2020@upf.edu More information: Call…
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Ibn al-Zayyāt al-Kalā‘ī (d. 724/1324), “the famous Sufi khaṭīb” of Velez Málaga, was renowned for his “amazing sermons,” which he delivered with “a booming voice,” and for his piety, religious knowledge, and extreme humility. Rulers sought him out as an ambassador to mediate between them in their disputes and ordinary people crowded to listen to…
Abū l-Rabī‘ al-Kalā‘ī (555/1160-634/1237) was a Hadith scholar, Friday liturgical preacher, and ceremonial court orator in the service of the Almohads in Valencia. He was famed for his eloquence as an orator and belletrist. He wrote several books on the Hadith, belles-letters, and preaching, but he was best known for his work, al-Iqtifā’ fī maghāzī…
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Abū Zakarīyā al-Qaysī al-Wā‘iẓ (d. 608/1211) was a religious scholar and hortatory preacher from Damascus. After studying many years in Isfahan he devoted himself to homiletic exhortation and became and itinerant preacher, delivering sermons in the Levant before arriving in al-Andalus, where he preached hortatory sermons for a long time in Granada. His charismatic sermons…
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Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Anṣārī (d. 650/1252) was a Valencian belletrist, Qur’an and Hadith scholar with family origins in Calatayud. He adopted a life of asceticism devoting himself to teaching Qur’anic exegesis, Hadith, and Sufi mysticism. He is the author of two treatises on the art of preaching, Nasīm al-ṣaba fī l-wa‘ẓ (The breeze of the eastern…
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(b. Orijuela 570-580/1174-84; d. 663/1265 Tunis). Ibn al-Murābiṭ was a belletrist, liturgical preacher (khaṭīb), court scribe, and diplomat in the autonomous government of Orihuela. He was best known for his eloquent correspondence, religious sermons, and nuptial orations, which he included in an anthology (diwān) of his works that he compiled, titled, Ẓawāhir al-fikar wa-jawāhir al-fiqar…
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Manuscript containing 99 sermones of saints and Sundays by Sanç Porta (Sancho Porta, Sancii Porta), O.P. Previous catalogue number: 269 Bibliography: OLMOS CANALDA, ElÍas, Catálogo descriptivo de los codices de la catedral de valencia, Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia, 92 (1928), pp. 311-312
Although several works by the Franciscan friar Francesc Eiximenis are closely related to sermons, very few actual sermons by Eiximenis are extant. Perarnau published one of this sermons in Biblioteca Vaticana, Ross 3. We have nevertheless several references to sermons written or delivered by Francesc Eiximenis. Four volumes of sermons were lost, and he delivered…
Manuscript containing 105 sermons by Federico Visconti, archbishop of Pise (1254 – 1277) Bibliography: Bériou, Nicole (dir.), Les sermons et la visite pastorale de Federico Visconti archevêque de Pise (1253-1277). Rome, École Française de Rome, 2001.