The exemplum in 15th century castilian sermons

• Grant number: 21/12803-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2021
• End date: October 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Leandro Alves Teodoro
• Grantee: Lívia Alves dos Santos
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/11111-9 - The teaching of the Christian faith in the Iberian Peninsula (14th, 15th and 16 centuries), AP.JP

Abstract

In the Castilian society of the 15th century, where the concern with the training of religious and clerics grew, collections of sermons began to circulate aiming at the improvement of preaching in the vernacular. These collections were both sermon reportations and manuals with ready-made templates for preachers to craft their own sermons tailored to a specific audience. By taking the book Evangelios moralizados, by Dominican Juan López, as the research target, this study will isolate the small narratives present in it to highlight the edifying role they played at that time. More precisely, this research will examine the edifying functions assigned to examples for the fixation of conduits. (AU)