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The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Caesarius of Heisterbachâs Dialogue on Miracles and its Reception
Series: - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 196
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 Heisterbachâs Dialogus Miraculorum (thirteenth century), the context of its production and other texts directly or indirectly inspired by it. The exempla inserted by Caesarius into a didactic dialogue between a monk and a novice survived for many centuries and travelled across the seas thanks to rewritings and translations into vernacular languages. An accomplished example of the art of persuasion âmedieval and early modernâ the Dialogus Miraculorum establishes a link not only between the monasteries, the mendicant circles and other religious congregations but also between the Middle Ages and Modernity, the Old and the New World.
Contributors are: Jacques Berlioz, Elisa Brilli, Danièle Dehouve, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Marie Formarier, Jasmin Margarete Hlatky, Elena Koroleva, Nathalie Luca, Brian Patrick McGuire, Stefano Mula, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Victoria Smirnova, and Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk.
Contributors are: Jacques Berlioz, Elisa Brilli, Danièle Dehouve, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Marie Formarier, Jasmin Margarete Hlatky, Elena Koroleva, Nathalie Luca, Brian Patrick McGuire, Stefano Mula, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Victoria Smirnova, and Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Manuscripts Cited
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Victoria Smirnova and Jacques Berlioz
PART 1
The Cistercian Art of âMaking Believeâ (Faire Croire)
1 The Monk Who Loved to Listen: Trying to Understand Caesarius
Brian Patrick McGuire
PART 2
In Search of a Cistercian Rhetoric
2 To What Extent Were the Twelfth-Century Cistercians Interested in Rhetorical Treatises?
Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk
3 Caesarius of Heisterbach Following the Rules of Rhetoric (Or Not?)
Victoria Smirnova
4 Visual Imagination in Religious Persuasion: Mental Imagery in Caesarius of Heisterbachâs Dialogus miraculorum (VIII, 31)
Marie Formarier
PART 3
Elaboration and Dissemination of a Narrative Theology
5 Narrative Theology in Caesarius of Heisterbachâs Dialogus miraculorum
Victoria Smirnova
6 Exempla and Historiography. Alberic of Trois-Fontainesâs Reading of Caesariusâs Dialogus miraculorum
Stefano Mula
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
Elisa Brili
8 Dialogus miraculorum: The Initial Source of Inspiration for Johannes Gobi the Youngerâs Scala coeli?
Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu
PART 5
The Dialogus miraculorum in Translation
9 On a Former Mayor of Deventer: Derick van den Wiel, the Devotiomoderna and the Middle Dutch Translation of the Dialogus miraculorum
Jasmin Margarete Hlatky
10 The Dialogus miraculorum in the Light of Its Fifteenth-century German Translation by Johannes Hartlieb
Elena Koroleva
11 Caesarius of Heisterbach in the New Spain (1570â1770)
Danièle Dehouve
PART 6
Roundtable: âMaking Believe. Stories and Persuasion:Continuity, Reconfiguration and Disruption, ThirteenthâTwenty-first Centuriesâ
12 From Caesarius to Jông Myông-Sôk: A South Korean Exemplum of a Messiah
Nathalie Luca
13 Readings/Lessons of the Exemplum
Pierre-Antoine Fabre
General Index
List of Illustrations
List of Manuscripts Cited
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Victoria Smirnova and Jacques Berlioz
PART 1
The Cistercian Art of âMaking Believeâ (Faire Croire)
1 The Monk Who Loved to Listen: Trying to Understand Caesarius
Brian Patrick McGuire
PART 2
In Search of a Cistercian Rhetoric
2 To What Extent Were the Twelfth-Century Cistercians Interested in Rhetorical Treatises?
Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk
3 Caesarius of Heisterbach Following the Rules of Rhetoric (Or Not?)
Victoria Smirnova
4 Visual Imagination in Religious Persuasion: Mental Imagery in Caesarius of Heisterbachâs Dialogus miraculorum (VIII, 31)
Marie Formarier
PART 3
Elaboration and Dissemination of a Narrative Theology
5 Narrative Theology in Caesarius of Heisterbachâs Dialogus miraculorum
Victoria Smirnova
6 Exempla and Historiography. Alberic of Trois-Fontainesâs Reading of Caesariusâs Dialogus miraculorum
Stefano Mula
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
Elisa Brili
8 Dialogus miraculorum: The Initial Source of Inspiration for Johannes Gobi the Youngerâs Scala coeli?
Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu
PART 5
The Dialogus miraculorum in Translation
9 On a Former Mayor of Deventer: Derick van den Wiel, the Devotiomoderna and the Middle Dutch Translation of the Dialogus miraculorum
Jasmin Margarete Hlatky
10 The Dialogus miraculorum in the Light of Its Fifteenth-century German Translation by Johannes Hartlieb
Elena Koroleva
11 Caesarius of Heisterbach in the New Spain (1570â1770)
Danièle Dehouve
PART 6
Roundtable: âMaking Believe. Stories and Persuasion:Continuity, Reconfiguration and Disruption, ThirteenthâTwenty-first Centuriesâ
12 From Caesarius to Jông Myông-Sôk: A South Korean Exemplum of a Messiah
Nathalie Luca
13 Readings/Lessons of the Exemplum
Pierre-Antoine Fabre
General Index
Researchers and students of medieval history and medieval Latin literature and rhetoric, monastic culture and translation, readers studying the Cistercian exemplum tradition and its transmission and reception.