Writing Religious, Transcultural, Gendered Identities and Alterities in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
Franciscan friar, active in the first part of 14th century. His name appears sometimes as Benedictus de Deo because of a confusion in the abbreviation. He lived in the Franciscan convents in Cervera and Lleida and his works can be adscribed to Scotism. His sermons did not receive much attention until recently, but are quite…
Until May 21, 2017, the Patronat del Call de Girona presents a temporary exhibition about the history of water as a purifying element in the Medieval Jewish Girona. [apss_share networks=’twitter’]
(c. 1380 – 1462). Franciscan friar. He founded Franciscan Observant convents in Sóller, Mahón and Palma de Mallorca, played an important role in the Revolta Forana (civil confrontations in Mallorca, 1450-3) and unified the scattered hospitals of Mallorca into a General Hospital. A regular preacher in Mallorca, he also visited Barcelona between 1451 and 1454….
[one_half] [/one_half] [one_half_last] Olivier Brisville-Fertin presented last February 23rd a lecture about aljamiado sermons at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Barcelona. Aljamiado literature is formed by texts and document writen in Spanish (or another romance language) but using Arabic alphabet. Brisville-Fertin presented lastest findings in his research, which focuses on 15-17th century…
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Bibliography Barbara A. SHAILOR, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Yale University. Volume III: Marston Manuscripts (Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 100), Binghamton (New York) 1992, 183-184. (PDF)
«Sublevatis Iesus occulis in celum, dixit1»(Habetur verbum istud textualiter Ioannis, XVIIº capitulo, et recitative in Evangelio hodierno). Yo en aquest sermó vos vull declarar les maneres que tenia lo nostre salvador e redemptor Jesuchrist en fer oració. Matèria serà profitosa, si plau a Déu, a salvació de nostres ànimes e correcció de peccats; mas primerament,…
(1380-1431) He was king’s counsellor at the Royal Court in Barcelona. By 1415 he was ordained priest and had important positions within the Church. He was created cardinal, and as such attended the Council of Constance. He wrote and delivered religious as well as literary sermons or speeches before the king and in relevant events….
Dominican friar (died 1365). Although he did not attend an Studia Generalis, he was recognised as a preacher, as four volumes of his sermons survive. He preached in Huesca, Cervera and Cagliari, were he was a lector in the dominican convents. Manuscripts: Sevilla, Colombina y Capitular, MS 59–3–7 (olim 85–3–42). Kynžvart 20 H 13. Třeboň,…
Dominican friar (1320-1399) also spelled Nicholas Eymerich or Aymerich. He was appointed Inquisitor General in Aragon (1358), but his strict theological points of view led to disagrements with king Peter of Aragon and to the withdrawal from the position (1360). He was again appointed General Inquisitor twice, but his radical positions against the followers of…
Manuscript containing 138 sermons, 89 of them sermones defunctorum. Written in 1373, when Eimeric was a chaplain at the service of Gregory XI. Bibliography: PUIG I OLIVER, Jaume de, «Manuscrits eimericians de la Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina de Sevilla, provinents de Girona», Arxiu de Textos Catalans Antics 17 (1998), 303-310 y 342-348. (PDF) «Dos sermons…
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