Search facilities to the main late medieval Lenten sermon collections
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.
The web application currently hosts information about 516 sermons by 21 collections.
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).