Preachers and Confessors against "Superstitions": Bernardino Busti and Sermon 16 of His Rosarium Sermonum

Conti, Fabrizio

doi:10.1353/mrw.2011.0001

Cited by 4 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 27 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Other leading Italian Observants includingGiovanni of Capistrano, Giacomo of the Marches, and Roberto Caracciolo of Lecce addressed similar themes in their preaching as well 40. At the end of the fifteenth century, the observant Bernardino Busti included an important sermon on superstition in his collection the Rosary of Sermons (Rosarium sermonum) 41. The Dominican order yields similar examples.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reformers on Sorcery and Superstition

Bailey¹

2015

A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspired or shaped much that became central to European religion and culture. The Observants produced many of the leading religious figures of the later Middle Ages-Catherine of Siena, Bernardino of Siena and Savonarola in Italy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros in Spain, and in Germany Martin Luther himself. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the Observant Movement. Its essays also seek collectively to expand the horizons of our study of Observant reform, and to open new avenues for future scholarship.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reformers on Sorcery and Superstition

Bailey¹

2015

A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Fabrizio Conti has traced the deep connections between catechesis, confession and superstition in the work of the Observant Franciscan Bernardino Busti. 45 Geörgy Galamb has shown the centrality of heresy for the preaching and writing of James of the Marches in the Balkans and in Hungary. 46 Tamar Herzig explores how reformers at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries (especially Dominicans, but others as well) redeployed earlier traditions of female sanctity and mysticism in their struggle with heresy.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious Life and Observant Reform in the Fifteenth Century

Mixson

2013

History Compass

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Across Europe after 1400, calls for reform echoed through the ranks of nearly every major religious order. They emerged and took root independently in ways as diverse as the late‐medieval religious and political landscape itself, yet also shared a range of common aims and characteristics. Collectively known as the Observant Movement, these efforts at reform produced some of the most important religious figures of the middle ages (Catherine of Siena and Savonarola, Bernardino of Siena and John of Capistrano, Jiménez de Cisneros, Thomas of Kempen, even the young Observant friar Martin Luther). They also reflected and inspired much that became central to late medieval religion and culture. Our textbooks, surveys and scholarly overviews long neglected the Observant story. But the last few decades of research have begun to remedy that neglect, bringing Observant reform to the center of a range of current scholarly concerns. This article surveys the emergence of that recent work, and some of its major themes: the connections between religious life and the histories of women and the laity; Observant preaching and teaching and their connection with humanism, as well as with the persecution of witches, Jews and others; the links between Observant reform and the later histories of the Reformation and the Atlantic world. It concludes with a consideration of the challenges and opportunities for future scholarship.

show abstract

Burchard’s strigae , the Witches’ Sabbath, and Shamanistic Cannibalism in Early Modern Europe

Wilby¹

2013

mrw

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article looks at folkloric beliefs about maleficent spirits and spirit-hordes as these affect the witchcraft literature in early modern Europe. The author proposes a possible model for viewing and understanding the cultural matrix that the witchcraft literature makes visible in anthropological treatments of shamanistic cannibalism. Isolating features of what she calls a “predatory cosmology” in these accounts, the author points out many parallels with the aspects of the stories retailed about vampiric strigae. She accentuates the point that beliefs do not exists in isolation: the supernatural is humanly mediated; it is always embedded in a matrix of praxis, and this matrix sometimes influences learned discourse as well.

show abstract

Preachers and Confessors against "Superstitions": Bernardino Busti and Sermon 16 of His Rosarium Sermonum

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Reformers on Sorcery and Superstition

Reformers on Sorcery and Superstition

Religious Life and Observant Reform in the Fifteenth Century

Burchard’s strigae , the Witches’ Sabbath, and Shamanistic Cannibalism in Early Modern Europe

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About