CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
		2-5 APRIL 1997, DOWNSIDE ABBEY (near Bath)

			MEDIEVAL MONASTIC PREACHING

	The Newman Fellowships Trust, in association with the University
of Bristol and Downside Abbey, has organized a conference that analyses
the diversity of medieval monastic preaching. Covering the period between
1150 and 1500, this conference encompasses a range of topics that have
received scant attention from scholars of monasticism and sermons alike.
The papers demonstrate that medieval monastic preaching was not only
carried out in the cloister by monks, but also in public arenas by monks
as well as nuns. The topics addressed range from questioning if the
sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux were ever preached, to an analysis of
Hildegard of Bingen's popular preaching against the Cathars. Moreover,
sermons addressed to monks and nuns by mendicant as well as monastic
preachers are analysed in an attempt to establish the sorts of directives
that shaped monastic spirituality.

Session 1: The Sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux

Christopher HOLDSWORTH (University of Exeter) Were the sermons of Bernard
of Clairvaux ever preached?

Burcht PRANGER (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Reading and
listening in the sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux

Session 2: Thirteenth-Century Preaching to Monks and Nuns

Jessalynn BIRD (Queen's College, Oxford) Jacques de Vitry's sermons to
monks and nuns

Alexis CHARANSONNET (Universite de Paris P X, Nanterre, France) Eudes de
Chateauroux's sermons to the Benedictines

Session 3: Sermons by and against the cathars

Beverly Mayne KIENZLE (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) Defending
the Lord's Vineyard: Hildegard's Sermons against the Cathars

John ARNOLD (University of York) Cathar monastic preaching

Session 4: continental Carthusians and preaching

Brian Patrick MCGUIRE (Roskilde University Centre, Denmark) *Shining Forth
Like the Dawn*: Jean Gerson's sermon to the Carthusians

Denys TURNER (University of Birmingham) Denys the Carthusian and his
*Sermones de sanctis* to monks

James HOGG (Universitat Salzburg, Austria) Early fifteenth-century chapter
house sermons at the Charterhouse of Mainz

Session 5: English Benedictines and preaching

James GINTHER (University of Leeds) Robert Grosseteste and the case of the
mendacious monks

Joan GREATREX (Robinson College, Cambridge) Benedictine Sermons:
Preparation and practice in the English monastic cathedral cloisters

Bro. Patrick HORNER (Manhattan College, New York, USA) Benedictine
preachers in fifteenth-century England

Session 6: ITALIAN MONASTIC PREACHING

George FERZOCO (University of Exeter) Preaching by Italian hermits

Catherine M. MOONEY (Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, VA, USA)
The sermons of Humility of Faenza (d.1310)

Session 7: LATE MEDIEVAL VERNACULAR PREACHING TO NUNS

Veronica O'MARA (University of Hull) Preaching to nuns in later medieval
England

Susan POWELL (University of Salford) Vernacular preaching at Syon Abbey

Regina D. SCHIEWER (Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany) Sermons for nuns
of the Observance movement

The conference will conclude with a lecture by Fr Chrysogonus WADDELL
(Gethsemani Abbey) and a roundtable discussion. 

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For further details please contact the organiser: Dr Carolyn Muessig,
Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol,
Bristol, UK, BS8 1PL. e-mail: [log in to unmask]



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