Dubrovnik annals, No. 17, 2013.
Original scientific paper
The Power of Word: Preachers in Medieval Dubrovnik
Zdenka Janeković Römer
orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-5519
; Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Abstract
In the pastoral of the Franciscan and Dominican orders preaching became the principal task of their mission. Preaching manuals represented the basis of the new art. The preachers also used sermon collections, Bible concordances and exempla collections. Franciscan and Dominican preachers spread out among the faithful, paying special attention to the communicative dimension of sermon. Thus they opened new ways of piety to the laity and gave them a new place in the Church. The library of the Dominican Friary and partly that of the Franciscans in Dubrovnik house a number of medieval preaching manuals, whose
message may also be traced in the Ragusan wills of the day.
Keywords
Middle Ages; preaching; Dominicans; Franciscans; Dubrovnik
Hrčak ID:
106747
URI
Publication date:
28.8.2013.
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