Christ Among the Medieval Dominicans

Representations of Christ in the Texts and Images of the Order of Preachers

Kent Emery. Jr., Joseph P. Wawrykow, Kent Emery. Jr., Joseph P. Wawrykow

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780268008369, 9780268008314
• eBook ISBN: 9780268076733
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History of Medieval Art
• Index: History

Christ among the Medieval Dominicans adopts a genuinely multi-disciplinary approach to its topic, bringing together the research of experts in a wide variety of fields. The essays in this volume, written by an acclaimed group of international scholars and presented at the University of Notre Dame Conference in Medieval Studies, provide many perspectives (theology, philosophy, spirituality, institutional and social history, art history, Latin and vernacular literature, and manuscript studies) on the life and thought of the Order of the Preachers. The essays focus on the role of Christ within the devotion and imagination of the Order and in effect expose the "state of the question" in studies of this important medieval institution. As a whole, the volume tests commonplace but often unexamined presuppositions of medieval historiography, especially in the history of spirituality and literary criticism. The essays are accompanied by ample visual evidence from paintings, manuscript illustrations and texts, woodcuts, and engravings, complete with generous indices of manuscripts and names.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Dominic and the Brothers: Vitae as Life-forming exempla in the Order of Preachers
• Dominic alter Christus? Representations of the Founder in and after the Arca di San Domenico
• The Influence of Stephen Langton on the Idea of the Preacher in the De eruditione predicatorum of Humbert of Romans and the Pastille on the Scriptures of Hugh of Saint-Cher
• Christ as Model of Sanctity in Humbert of Romans
• The Importance of Christ in the Correspondence between Jordan of Saxony and Diana d' Andalo, and in the Writings of Mechthild of Magdeburg
• The History of Christ in Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum historiale
• Christ in Dominican Catechesis: The Articles of Faith
• Splendor gloriae Patris: Deux collations du Super Isaiam de S. Thomas d' Aquin
• Poetry and Theology in the Adora te deuote: Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist and Christ's Uniqueness
• Wisdom in the Christology of Thomas Aquinas
• Le Christ clans la 'spiritualite' de saint Thomas
• Thomas Aquinas and His Contemporaries on the Unique Existence in Christ
• Jesus as the First Dominican? Reflections on a Sub-theme in the Exemplary Literature of Some Thirteenth-Century Preachers
• Christ, Exemplar Ordinis Fratrum Praedicantium, According to Saint Thomas Aquinas
• Christ in Dominican Marriage Preaching
• Rudolph of Schlettstadt, O.P.: Reporter of Violence, Writer on Jews
• Imitatio Christi: Female Sanctity and Dominican Piety in the Czech Life of Saint Catherine
• The Dominican Presence in Middle English Literature
• The Cosmic Christ: The Christology of Richard Fishacre, O.P.
• Christ, Christianity, and Non-Christian Religions: Their Interrelation in the Theology of Robert Kilwardby
• Albert the Great on Christ and Hierarchy
• Christ in the Writings of the Rhineland Dominicans
• Le Christ selon Maitre Eckhart
• Medieval Self-Fashioning: Authorship, Authority, and Autobiography in Seuse's Exemplar
• Tradition and Renewal: The Philosophical Setting of Fifteenth-Century Christology. Heymericus de Campo, Nicolaus Cusanus, and the Cologne Quaestiones vacantiales (1465)
• Familia Praedicatoria in the University of Notre Dame Library :Manuscripts, Incunables and Sixteenth-Century Books Containing Texts and Images of the Order of Preachers
• Index of Manuscripts
• Index of Names
• Table of Figures
• Figures