Victoria Smirnova

eBook, ePUB

Medieval Exempla in Transition (eBook, ePUB)

Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus Miraculorum and Its Readers

Beschreibung

This study follows the transmission and reception of Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum (1219-1223), one of the most compelling and successful Cistercian collections of miracles and memorable events, from the Middle Ages to the present day. It ranges across different media and within different interpretive communities and includes brief summaries of a number of the exempla.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 1.8MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

FILLIN "" Victoria Smirnova holds a doctoral degree in medieval Latin literature from Lomonosov Moscow State University (2006) and is currently a research fellow in the Bavarian State Library (Munich). She specializes in medieval sermons and exempla with particular emphasis on Caesarius of Heisterbach, to whose works she has dedicated numerous articles. She is also the principal editor of the collection of essays in The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond (2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liturgical Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780879071325
• Artikelnr.: 67249455