Homiletic Repurposing
Astrid Marner and Aidan Conti examine how homelitic texts were used and re-used in medieval Norway and England.
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Vernacular Preaching and Clerical Meditation: Homiletic Repurposing in Medieval England and Norway
One of the emphases of the project From Manuscript Fragments to Book History has been the circulation of homilies in medieval Norway, an emphasis that has facilitated the identification and description of a significant number of texts within the corpus. While many of these fragments represent books that can be described as typical, thereby reflecting dominant European practices and their reception in the North, others demonstrate a more eclectic arrangement of material, offering a window into how texts and collections were transformed as they circulated during the early period of the country's ecclesiastical organization. The Emerald Lectionary is one such fragment; one of its interesting features is the inclusion of extracts from the Homiliary of Angers, a collection of gospel expositions in Latin that served as the basis for vernacular preaching material. This collection, found in manuscripts throughout much of Latin Christendom, appears to have been highly adaptable and easily repurposed in a number of contexts.
Astrid Marner, post-doctoral researcher at UiB and a leading expert on Norwegian liturgical fragments, will present the Emerald Lectionary and its significance within the context of Norwegian homiletic fragments.
Aidan Conti, associate professor in Latin at UiB, who has published several articles on the Homiliary of Angers, will present research on the homily collection with an eye towards its significance for the Emerald Lectionary.
This talk offers a serendipitous discovery in which independent strands of research expertise have converged here in Bergen!
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