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Lenten Sermons

Search facilities to the main late medieval Lenten sermon collections

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The “Lenten sermon bestsellers” project, led by Pietro Delcorno, aims to map and provide several tools to navigate the most popular Lenten sermon collections circulating in late medieval Europe. Lenten preaching played a vital role in processes of mass-communication and identity formation. The web-application is meant to facilitate the identification and analysis of the textual ‘infrastructure’ that supported this widespread socio-religious practice.

In its first phase, the project will map the Lenten sermon collections printed before the Reformation (1470-1520), considering these normative texts as pocket-sized encyclopaedias that reflected and produced the shared (religious) grammar of the time.

More on the project here.

A three-minute introduction to Lenten preaching in this video.

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Summary and news

The web application currently hosts information about 876 sermons by 23 collections.

Full list of the 50 Lenten sermons of the Sermones quadragesimales anima fidelis by Antonio da Bologna
Database reached 850 sermons... and counting
Themata and divisio of the 98 Lenten sermons by Jacobus de Vorarige, whose success in print is witnessed by 20 printed editions between 1491 and 1589
Full list of the 93 Lenten sermons (and their divisio) of the Sermones quadragesimales Thesauri Novi. This anonymous sermon collection was one of the most succesful bestsellers of the time, with 33 printed edition between 1485 and 1608.
Full list of the 71 Lenten sermons of the Quadragesimale Gemma fidei by Osvaldus de Lasko
Full list of the 123 Lenten sermons of Giacomo della Marca is available (description limited to themata)
Full list of the 73 Lenten sermons published in the Quadragesimale de penitetina of Roberto Caracciolo is available
Full list and summary of the 49 Lenten sermons published in the Quaresimale volgare of Roberto Caracciolo is available, the earliest Lenten sermon collection printed in vernacular

Start your research

As entry point, please use the options offered in the above menu (List and Tool). For further information, see the section Instruction. More about the project here.

Do you have addition or correction to the data provided? Do you want to collaborate with this project? Please, get in touch with Pietro Delcorno (pietro.delcorno3@unibo.it).