Sobre el trasfondo social de la predicación mendicante en Castilla y León (siglo XIII)
ISSN: 0214-0691, 2530-8254
Year of publication: 2011
Issue: 1
Pages: 103-136
Type: Article
More publications in: Erebea: Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales
Abstract
The article explores social and historical information of two sources related to preaching in 13th century Spain: the added indexes to Rodrigo de Cerrato's Vitas Sanctorum and the sermons ad status included in Juan Gil de Zamora's sermons book. Tha Castilian Dominican structures "exempla" that he took from his legendary hagiographical work in such orden that more emphasis falls on education of the clergy and less in the world of laymen. He exposes a moral conception in accordance with the teological evolution of his time. The sermons of the Franciscan, conceived undoubtedly with rhetorical patterns, offer systematically a panoramic view of the moral contemporary atmosphere of his time, and even if they lack "nationalistic" nuances, they have been transcribed as sources for the history of analytical and sociological criticism.