The Limburg Sermons: Preaching in the Medieval Low Countries at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16969-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 953 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Church History

For a long time it was thought that there were no Middle Dutch sermons dating from the thirteenth century. It was only after J.P. Gumbert had redated the manuscript from The Hague containing the Limburg Sermons that its contents could be assigned to that century. Most of the Limburg Sermons appear to be translations of the Middle High German St. Georgen sermons. But sixteen of these texts are known only in Middle Dutch, and among these is to be found material drawn from the works of Hadewijch and Beatrijs van Nazareth. Thus the Limburg Sermons emerge to take their place in the famous tradition of Brabantine mysticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scheepsma, Wybren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Illustrations

I. Introduction
1. The Hague Manuscript
2. The Medieval Sermon
3. The St. Georgen Sermons and the Limburg Sermons
4. A Cistercian Literature in the Vernacular?
5. The Historical Context

II. The Textual Corpus
1. The Table of Contents in MS H
2. The Translated St. Georgen Sermons
3. Dets dbuec van den palmboeme (Ls. 31)
4. Seven Passion Sermons (Ls. 32-38)
5. Dbuec van den boegaerde (Ls. 39)
6. Dbuec van den twelf frogten (Ls. 40)
7. Dit leert ons negenrehande minne (Ls. 41)
8. Det sin seven maniren van minnen (Ls. 42)
9. Dbuec van den gesteleken winkelre (Ls. 43)
10. Dets dbuec van heren Selfarts regelen (Ls. 44)
11. Dets van der heilger selen (Ls. 45)
12. Dets wie onse vrouwe een besloten boegaert es (Ls. 45)
13. Laudate dominum in sanctus eius (Ls. 48)
14. The Maastrichtse Passiespel
15. Preliminary Review

III. Form and Function
1. An Example: The Spiritual Wine Cellar
2. The Fiction of the Sermon
3. Bible and Allegory
4. Damsels of Jerusalem
5. Memoria and Meditation
6. Rhyme, Prose and Rhyming Prose

IV. Backgrounds
1. The Later Transmission
2. The Letters of Hadewijch
3. Minne and Mysticism
4. Old French Religious Literature
5. Connections in the Old French Transmission
6. Mystical Networks

Appendices
I. Codicological Description of Manuscript H
II. The Limburg Sermons According to Manuscript H
III. Concordance
IV. ‘Brothers’ in Manuscript H
V. Two Limburg Sermons in Translation

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wybren Scheepsma, Ph.D. (1997), Leiden University, works as a post doc researcher at Leiden University. He has published extensively on the role of vernacular religious literature in late medieval Europe.