The Cardinal's Frogs: Constructing Animal Imagery in Two Fourteenth-Century Curial Sermons
Animals had a prominent place in the medieval symbolic imagination. A variety of sources, including scripture, classical and medieval naturalists, and bestiaries, helped to inform the construction of animal symbology and to establish what might be considered a canon regarding animal symbolism. Two p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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Medieval sermon studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 29-41 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KBG France KDB Roman Catholic Church RE Homiletics |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Avignon B animal symbolism B Preaching B Cardinal Pierre des Prés B Pierre de Palme |
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| Summary: | Animals had a prominent place in the medieval symbolic imagination. A variety of sources, including scripture, classical and medieval naturalists, and bestiaries, helped to inform the construction of animal symbology and to establish what might be considered a canon regarding animal symbolism. Two preachers at the fourteenth-century Avignonese curia - Cardinal Pierre des Prés and the Dominican Pierre de Palme - made extensive use of animal imagery in their sermons, drawing on the established medieval 'canon' of such imagery while simultaneously demonstrating considerable originality, particularly in constructing moral interpretations of the animal images that they employed. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-6276 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Medieval sermon studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13660691.2018.1520974 |