Leuven, May 2013.
Open
Call for Authors for a Handbook on Latin
Patristic Sermons in Brill series A New
History of the Sermon.
To all who might be interested,
Patristic sermons have enjoyed
a particular academic interest during the last decades. Several aspects of this
genre have been explored through a variety of methodologies. More than a few conferences,
articles, and monographs have been devoted to this topic. In collaboration with
Brill’s series, A New History of the
Sermon (http://www.brill.com/publications/new-history-sermon), the Research Departments of Latin Literature (Arts Faculty) and History of Church and Theology (Theology Faculty) of the University
of Leuven (Belgium) will compose a
handbook on Latin Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, Audiences (working
title).
In this volume we would like
to bring together an up-to-date state of the art of the study of the sermons of
Latin Patristic authors. The intention of this handbook is to outline the
available sources, the approaches and methodologies appropriate in handling
them, the research issues that arise in the study of the sermons, and to offer
an overview of how these issues have been dealt with, leaving room for
disagreement. The aim of this volume is not so much to compile a new narrative
history, but to provide a graduate-level synthesis of debate and the state of
scholarship, with balanced and general accounts. The contributions should avoid
being limited to an abstract-theoretical presentation. The authors are
encouraged to illustrate their overview/analysis with concrete textual
examples, and if possible to add a case study/case studies. The contributions
are not primarily intended for specialists, but should explain and show through
examples the discussed subject for non-specialist scholars. The purpose of the
volume is to allow graduate students and scholars versed in one area of the study
of sermons but interested in another to find here the tools to further develop
their knowledge. A provisional table of contents is added below.
The scholars who have already
agreed to write a contribution for this volume include Pauline Allen, François
Dolbeau, Bronwen Neil, Maureen Tilley.
Contributions should be
written in English [Brill insists that the English of the contributions be thoroughly
checked before submission] and be limited to ca. 7.000 words (including
footnotes). The deadline for the
submission of manuscripts would be 1 June 2014.
You may find the table of
contents, provisional instructions, and available
topics (indicated with an asterisk *), here below. If you are interested in
writing a contribution on one of these topics, we would like to invite you to
contact us, and send us (before 1 July 2013) your CV and a short abstract
of how precisely you would like to deal with the subject of the chapter of your
choice (indicating also preliminary thoughts on a possible case study/possible
case studies you would like to develop).
Please, do not hesitate to
contact us in case you have any questions or suggestions.
If you are interested in
participating in this project, please send an email to:
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Anthony Dupont Prof.
Dr. Gert Partoens
Dra. Shari
Boodts Prof.
Dr. Johan Leemans
Latin Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, Audiences
Provisional table of contents and Preliminary Instructions
Introduction (by the editors)
Part I: Text, Context and History
1. Manuscripts
and transmission
2. History
of liturgy, sermons as a form of liturgy
3. Exegetical
study
4. Visual
Arts and Iconography
Part II: Sermons: Delivering, Listening and Reading
1. Historical-critical
approach of sermons
2. Rhetorics
– Style – Linguistics
3.
Impact – Influence – Identity
Part III: Latin Patristic Preachers
Each separate
contribution (devoted to one specific patristic author, or to a specific group
of authors), should treat (to a greater or lesser extent) each of the following
parts:
1. Sources and (history of the) corpus: where can we find these sermons today, what is their place
within the oeuvre of the discussed author, do we have chronological
information?
2. How did the patristic author himself think about
preaching in general and his own sermons in particular?
3. What is the content, style, aim, target group of the
sermons?
4. Survey of the state of the art of the research into
these sermons during the last decades. What is the importance of studying these
sermons (in general and more specific in relation to the rest of the oeuvre of
the specific author)?
5. Pseudo-tradition: inauthentic sermons ascribed to the
discussed author(s). (only when applicable)
6. Concise bibliography
a. Critical editions, translations, …
b. Studies.
The authors of
the volume are encouraged to illustrate their analysis with concrete textual
examples.
Ambrosius
Augustine (+ ps.-tradition)
*Caesarius
of Arles
Gregorius
Magnus
*Jerome/Hiëronymus (+ ps.-tradition)
Leo Magnus
*Maximus of Turin (+ ps.-tradition)
Arian sermons (Maximinus)
*Petrus Chrysologus (+ ps.-tradition)
*Zeno,
Chromatius, Gaudentius
Gallic preachers
(Valerianus)
North-African preachers (Donatists)
Preaching in Spain
(Priscillianus)
*Latin
translations of Greek sermons
Epilogue (by the editors, or by an established protagonist in the study of
(Latin) Patristic Sermons)
