Exploring the Process of Sermon Preparation: Intellectual Exchange among the Mendicant Friars in Late Medieval Italy

2024 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K01054
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 03040:History of Europe and America-related
• Research Institution: Nara Women's University (2022-2024); Shinshu University (2019-2021)
• Principal Investigator: Kimura Yoko 奈良女子大学, 人文科学系, 准教授 (10636997)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2025-03-31
• Keywords: 托鉢修道会 / 知的交流 / 説教 / 写本 / 初期印刷本 / 中世ヨーロッパ / イタリア / インテレクチュアル・ヒストリー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study contributes to the clarification of the sermon production and circulation in mendicant orders in the late Middle Ages. Intellectual exchange between religious orders has been overlooked because the study of sermons has been conducted separately for each order. This study reveals the fact that the sermons of prominent Italian preachers not only circulated within Italy but were “exported” also to other areas in Europe and were referred to at the grassroots level as “common property” among different mendicant orders, and that they were also copied and referenced in various ways outside the mendicant orders (other religious orders, secular clergy). The research was based on an examination of unpublished manuscripts and early printed books. The results of this study also include the discovery of a new manuscript of sermons by Roberto da Lecce, a prominent Franciscan preacher.

Free Research Field

西洋中世史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

異なる托鉢修道会間の知的交流に着目して説教作成を検討した本研究は、単一の修道会の枠内で進展してきた説教研究に新たな視座を提供するとともに、テクストの背景にある知的文脈を探るインテレクチュアル・ヒストリーの研究にも寄与するものである。そして中世ヨーロッパのマス・メディアである、托鉢修道会の説教の実態解明は、様々な問題が指摘される現代メディアのあり方を再考する際にも有益な示唆を与えるであろう。