'Christ and the soul are like Pyramus and Thisbe': An Ovidian Story in Fifteenth-Century Sermons

The sophisticated ways in which several fifteenth-century preachers used Ovidian stories and their allegorical interpretations prove that late medieval sermons represent a promising but neglected area for classical reception studies. Preachers - whose names are today almost forgotten by scholars but...

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Main Author: Delcorno, Pietro (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2016]
In: Medieval sermon studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-61
RelBib Classification:KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KDB Roman Catholic Church
RE Homiletics
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B Allegorical Interpretation
B Incunabula
B Model sermons
B Reception of Ovid
B Passion of Christ
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