In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son : The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (C. 1200-1550).

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Editorial Note -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- The Medieval Exegesis on the Parable of the Prodigal Son -- 1 The Parable in the Gospel of Luke -- 2 Patristic Exegesis: Allegorical and Moral Readings -- 2.1 Tertullian's Refusal of a Penitential Interpretation -- 2.2 The Allegorical Reading of Jerome -- 2.3 "Filii sumus, festinamus ad Patrem": Ambrose's Penitential Reading -- 2.4 Augustine: Exegesis and Self-Narrative -- 2.5 "Delicta non videt vis amoris": Chrysologus' Pastoral Use of the Parable -- 3 Into the Early Middle Ages: From Caesarius of Arles to the Pseudo-Eligius -- 4 Twelfth-Century Monastic Readings -- 4.1 Bernard of Clairvaux's Parable of the Son of the King -- 4.2 Primacy of Mercy and Spiritual Union in Guerric of Igny -- 4.3 The Soul and the Body in a Sermon from Admont Abbey -- 4.4 The Exegesis of a Magistra: Hildegard of Bingen -- 5 The Main Scholastic Exegetical Instruments -- 5.1 The Bedrock: The Glossa ordinaria -- 5.2 The Multiple Readings of Hugh of Saint-Cher -- 5.3 Bonaventure: The Penitential Itinerary of the Prodigal Son -- 5.4 The Catena aurea and the Postilla -- 6 Mary Magdalen and the Prodigal Son in the Speculum humanae salvationis -- 7 Visualizing the Adventure of the Prodigal Son -- 8 Performing the Parable in Courtois d'Arras -- 9 Transition: Towards People, Towards Cities -- Chapter 2 -- The Voice of the Preacher: Late Medieval Model Sermon Collections -- 1 Preaching and Liturgy -- 2 Between Model Sermons and Reportationes -- 3 Two Genres of Lenten Model Sermon Collections -- 4 Two Influential Models of Iacopo da Varazze -- 4.1 The Penitential Itinerary: Aversio, conversio, receptio -- 4.2 From the Elder Brother to the Virgin Mary -- 5 Preaching on the Virgin Mary (XIII-XVI Centuries) -- 6 Early Model Sermon Collections (XIII-XIV Centuries).

6.1 Three Dominican Preachers -- 6.2 Alberto da Padova: "Quasi plebis concionator" -- 6.3 François de Meyronnes: "The Son's Repentance as the Glory of His Father" -- 7 Echoes of Sermons in Ludolph of Saxony's Vita Christi -- 8 A Heterodox Wycliffite Sermon -- 9 Vicent Ferrer: Dramatizing the Story and Bookkeeping the Merits -- 10 Towards Fifteenth-Century Model Sermon Collections -- 11 An Encyclopaedic Model Sermon by Conrad Grütsch -- 12 "Alexander the Great Had a Son": Reworking the Gesta romanorum -- 13 "A Son Must Not Do This": Obedience as Main Virtue -- 14 "You Have a Brothel almost in Every Place" -- 15 On the Border of a Book of Hours -- Chapter 3 -- Italian Preaching on the Prodigal Son: From Bernardino da Siena to Savonarola -- 1 "Seek What Helps You to Leave Your Sins" -- 2 A Cornerstone of Bernardino's Preaching -- 2.1 "Imagine that the Prodigal Son Was a Paduan Adolescent …" -- 2.2 Two Vernacular Reportationes (Florence 1424) -- 2.3 A Rediscovered Autograph -- 2.4 A Diptych on Obedience: Isaac and the Prodigal Son (Florence 1425) -- 3 A Model Sermon in the Quadragesimale de Christiana Religione -- 4 An Alternative Model Sermon on the Elder Brother -- 5 Against Jews and Hussites: Giovanni da Capestrano at Breslau -- 6 "Urged by Love and the Necessity of the Time …" -- 7 In the Footsteps of the Master: Giacomo della Marca and Bernardino da Feltre -- 7.1 "Swallow Me into the Abyss of Your Love" -- 7.2 Applying the Model in Pavia -- 8 "Better Cold than Tepid!": Savonarola and Lukewarm Christians -- Chapter 4 -- The Layman, the Woman, and the Priest: Three Florentine Dramas on the Prodigal Son -- 1 The Youth Confraternity of the Purification and Piero Muzi -- 2 The Festa of the Fatted Calf -- 3 The Representation of the Prodigal Son of Antonia Pulci -- 4 A Spiritual Mother "Who Knew the Bible Very Well".

5 Castellano Castellani and the Florence of Savonarola -- 6 The Representation of the Prodigal Son of Castellani -- 7 "Con questo dolce suon che tanto piace …" -- 8 "I Thought I'd Burst for Contrition" -- 9 Beyond the Florentine Stage -- Chapter 5 -- Fifty Sermons on the Prodigal Son: Johann Meder's Quadragesimale novum de filio prodigo -- 1 The 'Confession' of a Preacher -- 1.1 The Preacher as a "Smart Cook" -- 1.2 Secrets for a Successful Recipe -- 2 The Sermons -- 2.1 The Prodigal Son as a Fool -- 2.2 From the House to the Tavern -- 2.3 "With a Hoarse Voice and Sad Sighs" -- 2.4 A Weekly Rhythm -- 2.5 Contrition, Confession, and Satisfaction -- 2.6 From the Angel to Christ: "Conceive in Your Mind What I Suffered for You" -- 2.7 Meditating the Passion and Participating in the Last Supper -- 2.8 "Come in My Garden, My Bride" -- 2.9 From the Sepulchre to the Encounter with Christ -- 3 Two Absences: The Devil and the Elder Brother -- 4 An Unusual Illustrated Sermon Collection -- 4.1 The Role of Sebastian Brant -- 4.2 Visualizing the Sermons -- 5 Dissemination of Meder's Quadragesimale -- 6 Erasmus' Criticism to an Anonymous Theologian -- Chapter 6 -- The Sixteenth-Century Prodigal Son: A Multiple Mirror -- 1 Before the Storm: Michel Menot in Paris, 1518 -- 2 Leipzig 1519: Fighting on the Prodigal Son -- 3 Voices of the Reformation -- 3.1 A Former Franciscan in Wittenberg: François Lambert -- 3.2 Staging the Conflict -- 3.3 "Per solam fidem ad gratiam evangelicam" (Pellikan) -- 3.4 Two Sermons of Johannes Brenz -- 3.5 "Heac dulcissima imago saepe cogitanda est" (Melanchthon) -- 4 Early Catholic Responses in Preaching -- 4.1 Johannes Eck's Archetype of the Penitent -- 4.2 Friedrich Nausea against the "Licence to Sin" -- 4.3 Nikolaus Ferber: "Scripturam scripturis interpretari" -- 4.4 Georg Witzel: "Better than Any Other Lively Description …".

5 Johann Wild's Lenten Cycle on the Prodigal Son (Mainz 1547) -- 5.1 The Mirror: "Looking at the Prodigal Son We Recognize Ourselves" -- 5.2 "Short Words with a Great Meaning" -- 5.3 Grace, Free Will, and Confession -- 5.4 The Elder Brother -- Epilogue -- Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index of Names and Places -- Index of Biblical Quotations -- Index of Manuscripts.

In In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (c. 1200-1550) Pietro Delcorno reconstructs how this biblical parable became, particularly through preaching, a key master narrative in shaping religious identity in medieval and Reformation Europe.

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