Universität Wien

070281 PS BA-Proseminar - Propaganda in the Middle Ages: Sermons as a historical source (ca.800-ca.1350) (2025S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Mo 28.04. 15:00-16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7

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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Montag 03.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 10.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 17.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 24.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 31.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 07.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 05.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 12.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 19.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 26.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 02.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 16.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Freitag 20.06. 08:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 15 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
  • Samstag 21.06. 08:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 15 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
  • Montag 23.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Montag 30.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 29 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course is devoted to a particular textual genre of the medieval period, that is, sermon texts, which are usually assembled into collections that follow the liturgical year. These texts survived in enormous numbers (c.140.000 alone for the period between 1150 and 1350), but they are in many cases unpublished as well as unconsidered in modern scholarship. This is surprising considering that they are highly pertinent sources for the historian that can elucidate a number of phenomena such as the mobilization of crusade expeditions, the Middle Age’s relentless anti-Judaism, or the drive for morally reforming Christian society. The course will familiarize the students with this genre, introduce into major challenges that one faces with these texts, and unveil pathways for how these texts can serve historical endeavours. This will straddle different periods (c.800-c.1350) as well as various phenomena. Sermons have been penned in such vast amounts, since these were meant as models for actual preaching; these texts bring us thus close to a preaching practice. And these texts were often meant to address broad popular audiences (inner-clerical communication usually happened via other methods); these can, therefore, shed light on the ideas of a broad range of medieval society.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

a) Weekly preparation of texts (reading, analysis), and based upon that, vivid and frequent participation in discussions: in the first part of the term, secondary literature (predominantly in English); and in the second part, analysis of Latin sermons (you may use any help you need for preparing the texts).
b) Searching and selecting on your own a sermon text of your choice from the wide range of medieval sermon material. There are only two rules: it must not be any of the texts we discussed already during the term; and it must be a sermon of some kind of historical pertinence. What exactly is done with the text is up to the students (analysing a specific motif; comparison with other sermon texts; attempt at a historical contextualization).
c) Oral presentation of your chosen sermon in the blocked session at the end of the term (c.10min), including discussion thereafter.
d) Seminar paper penning the results of your analysis, following the usual guidelines of scholarly work (c.15 pages; 40.000 signs). However, a step of development must be visible in-between oral and written version. The deadline for submitting the paper is negotiable.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The seminar addresses primarily students of medieval history, and for passing this course, skills in Latin are required.
Weekly preparation and vivid participaton in the discussions make up an essential part of the final grade. Furthermore, two assignments are required: an oral presentation and a written seminar paper (see above).
Composition of the grade: 30 % weekly preparation and participation in discussion; 20 % oral presentation; 50 % seminar paper.
All three parts must be done properly in order to pass the course.

Prüfungsstoff

See above.

Literatur

Bird, Jessalynn L.: Preaching the Crusades and the Liturgical Year: The Palm Sunday Sermons. In: Essays in Medieval studies 30 (2014), 11-36; d'Avray, David: Method in the study of medieval sermons. In: Modern questions about medieval sermons: essays on marriage, death, history and sanctity (Spoleto 1994), 3-29; d'Avray, David: The preaching of the friars: Sermons diffused from Paris before 1300 (Oxford 1985); Diesenberger, Maximilian: ‘Der Zorn der Richter. Friedensdiskurse in Predigten und Kapitularien in der Karolingerzeit‘, in: Das Recht in die eigene Hand nehmen? Rechtliche, soziale und theologische Diskurse über Selbstjustiz und Rache, ed. Christine Reinle and Anna-Lena Wendel (Baden-Baden 2021), 29-42; Diesenberger, Maximilian: Predigt und Politik im frühmittelalterlichen Bayern. Arn von Salzburg, Karl der Große und die Salzburger Sermones-Sammlung (Berlin 2015); Galle, Christoph: Predigen im Karolingerreich. Die homiletischen Sammlungen von Paulus Diaconus, Lantperhtus von Mondsee, Rabanus Maurus und Haymo von Auxerre (Turnhout 2023); Hanska, Jussi: Preachers as historians. The case of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. In: Anuario de estudios medievales 42/1 (2012), 29-52; Hanska, Jussi: Reconstructing the Mental Calendar of Medieval Preaching: A Method and Its Limits – An Analysis of Sunday Sermons. In: Muessig, Carolyn A. (Hg.): Preacher, sermon and audience in the Middle Ages (Leiden 2002), 293-315; Kienzle, Beverly Mayne: Medieval sermons and their performance: theory and record. In: Muessig, Carolyn A. (Hg.): Preacher, sermon and audience in the Middle Ages (Leiden 2002), 89-124; Marx, Alexander: Constructing and Denying the Enemy: Cistercian Approaches to Preaching the Third Crusade (1187-92). In: Cîteaux 70 (2019), 47-68; Marx, Alexander: The Passio Raginaldi of Peter of Blois. Martyrdom and Eschatology in the Preaching of the Third Crusade. In: Viator 50/3 (2019), 197-232; Marx, Alexander: The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187-1192). The Early University of Paris, Biblical Exegesis, and the Coming Apocalypse (Leiden 2024); Phillips, Christopher Matthew: The Typology of the Cross and Crusade Preaching. In: Parker, Matthew; Halliburton, Ben (Hg.): Crusading in Art, Thought, and Will (Leiden 2018), 166-185; Tamminen, Miikka: Crusade Preaching and the Ideal Crusader (Turnhout 2018); Thompson, Augustine: From Texts to Preaching: Retrieving the Medieval Sermon as an Event. In: Muessig, Carolyn A. (Hg.): Preacher, sermon and audience in the Middle Ages (Leiden 2002), 13-37.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

BA Geschichte (2012): Mittelalter, Neuzeit (BA-Modul 1 - 5 ECTS)
BA Geschichte (2019): PM6 Historisches Arbeiten (5 ECTS)
BEd UF Geschichte: Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte, Österreichische Geschichte 1 (5 ECTS)

Letzte Änderung: Di 04.03.2025 12:26