Sessions Sponsored or Co-Sponsored by the IMSSS

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Session 41, Tuesday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT, Virtual

Medieval Sermon Studies I

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

Presider: Nirit Debby Ben Aryeh, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev

Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame

The Catalan Preacher Marc Bonifili and His Marian Sermons

Lidia Grzybowska, Univ. Jagiellonski w Krakowie

Franciscan Preaching on Mary Magdalene: Roberto da Lecce on the First Resurrection Witness

Steven J. McMichael, Univ. of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Medieval Sermons and Humanist Rhetoric: Tracing the Roots of Renaissance Rhetorical Copiousness in the Medieval Ars Praedicandi

Timothy P. Green, Defiance College

Session 73, Thursday, May 11, 1:30 p.m. EDT,  Schneider Hall 1145

Medieval Sermon Studies II

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

Presider: C. Matthew Phillips, Concordia Univ. Nebraska

Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame

Bede’s Palm Sunday Homily: A Rhetorical Exposition

John P. Bequette, Holy Apostles College and Seminary

Training the Eye of the Mind: Perceptual Conditioning in Andrew of Crete’s Triptych Homilies on the Dormition

Lucas Lynn Christensen, Univ. of Notre Dame

Concerns about Communication

Serena Strecker, Yale Univ.

Session 122, Thursday, May 11, 3:30 pm, EDT Schneider Hall 1145

Medieval Sermon Studies III

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

Presider: Jessalynn L. Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame

Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird

“How priests should teach laypeople”: A Set of Sermons for Parish Priests in Thirteenth-Century England

Andrew Reeves, Middle Georgia State Univ.

Cruce signare: A Sermon on Christ’s Passion from the Late Twelfth Century

C. Matthew Phillips, Concordia Univ. Nebraska

Martin of Le.n (ca. 1130–1203), Liber Sermonum: An Experiment in Finding

New Formats for Preaching Material

Alexander Marx, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Session 199, Friday, May 12, 10:00 am EDT, Virtual

Medieval Sermon Studies IV

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

Presider: Anne T. Thayer, Lancaster Theological Seminary

Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame

Paul the Deacon as a Homilist

Andrea Antonio Verardi, Helsingin Yliopisto / Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana

Word and Image: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Preaching and Visual Culture in

the Medieval and Early Modern World

Nirit Debby Ben Aryeh, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev

The Ethics of Knowledge in Henry of Ghent’s Sermon for the Feast of Saint Catherine

and Summa of Ordinary Questions

Gustavo Barreto Vilhena de Paiva, Centro de Estudos de Filosofia Patrística e

Medieval de S.o Paulo

Sermons and Oratory Technique in the Historical Works of Thomas Ebendorfer

(1388–1464)

Gábor Bradács, Independent Scholar

Friday, May 12, 12:00–1:00 pm,  Fetzer Center 1055

International Medieval Sermon Studies

Business Meeting (Open)

Session 227, Friday, May 12, 1:30 pm, Schneider Hall 1145

The Bible, Sacred Texts, and Preaching

Sponsors: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society; Society for the

Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSBMA)

Presider: Jessalynn L. Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame

Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird

Frans van Liere, Calvin Univ. / Boston College

Mounting the Seventh Rung: Florilegia and the Sources of Scripture in Alan of

Lille’s Ars praedicandi

Jacob W. Doss, Institute for Historical Studies, Univ. of Texas–Austin

Stephen Langton, Educator of Preachers

Alessia M. Berardi, Christendom College

Between Exegesis and Preaching: The Postillae of Filippo da Moncalieri (Fourteenth

Century)

Emanuele Fontana, Univ. degli Studi di Verona