medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Estate sermons sound like just the sort of thing I'm looking for, as I'm in
> the middle of writing a chapter on how Giotto's frescoes can be related to
> conduct literature and devotional literature aimed at different
> audiences(women, children, knights, merchants etc) I didn't know about
> these. I'd be especially interested in those for merchants and children as
> I'm finding sources hard to come by. Presumably they are published? I too
> would be interested in seeing your translation of the children's one if you
> wouldn't mind.
Laura,
This may be a bit late for you, but at the beginning of the 15th century the prior of
the Dominican convent in Florence, Giovanni Dominici, wrote his Regola del
Governo di cura famigliare, in which he advised parents to have images of the
Christ Child and infant saints, such as the young John the Baptist, in their homes to
serve as models for their own children: "one should have in the home images of
child saints, male and female, in which your infant, still in its diapers, can see their
own likeness, for it is in this way that this can be accomplished between the infant
and the infantile image, with the movements and signs that are typical of children."
Sorry for the inelegant translation from the French. This has been published, in an
edition by Salvi Domenico (Florence, 1861). Although later than Giotto, it certainly
recalls aspects of St Francis's creche.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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