Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Victoria Smirnova (Ph.D. 2006), is Senior Lecturer, Russian State University for the Humanities. She specializes in medieval sermons and exempla with particular emphasis on Caesarius of Heisterbach. Her Publications include L'xuvre litteraire du Moyen Age aux yeux de l'historien et du philologue (2014). Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu (Ph.D. 1984, Habilitation 2001) is Director of Research at the Paris Centre for Historical Research. She published on medieval exempla, preaching and liturgy. Her publications include the edition of Collectio exemplorum cisterciensis (2012) and Predication and Performance (2013). Jacques Berlioz (Ph.D. 1985) is Director of Research at the Paris Centre for Historical Research and former Director of Ecole nationale des chartes (2006-2011). He published on Bernard of Clairvaux and exempla and he is Editor of the Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus of Stephen of Bourbon (2002, 2006).

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Manuscripts Cited Abbreviations List of ContributorsIntroduction Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Victoria Smirnova and Jacques BerliozPART 1The Cistercian Art of ‘Making Believe’ (Faire Croire)1 The Monk Who Loved to Listen: Trying to Understand Caesarius Brian Patrick McGuirePART 2In Search of a Cistercian Rhetoric2 To What Extent Were the Twelfth-Century Cistercians Interested in Rhetorical Treatises? Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk3 Caesarius of Heisterbach Following the Rules of Rhetoric (Or Not?) Victoria Smirnova4 Visual Imagination in Religious Persuasion: Mental Imagery in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus miraculorum (VIII, 31) Marie FormarierPART 3Elaboration and Dissemination of a Narrative Theology5 Narrative Theology in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus miraculorum Victoria Smirnova6 Exempla and Historiography. Alberic of Trois-Fontaines’s Reading of Caesarius’s Dialogus miraculorum Stefano MulaPART 4The Use of the Cistercian Heritage in Dominican Preaching7 The Making of a New Auctoritas: The Dialogus miraculorum Read and Rewritten by the Dominican Arnold of Liège Elisa Brili8 Dialogus miraculorum: The Initial Source of Inspiration for Johannes Gobi the Younger’s Scala coeli? Marie Anne Polo de BeaulieuPART 5The Dialogus miraculorum in Translation9 On a Former Mayor of Deventer: Derick van den Wiel, the Devotiomoderna and the Middle Dutch Translation of the Dialogus miraculorum Jasmin Margarete Hlatky10 The Dialogus miraculorum in the Light of Its Fifteenth-century German Translation by Johannes Hartlieb Elena Koroleva11 Caesarius of Heisterbach in the New Spain (1570–1770) Danièle DehouvePART 6Roundtable: “Making Believe. Stories and Persuasion:Continuity, Reconfiguration and Disruption, Thirteenth–Twenty-first Centuries”12 From Caesarius to Jông Myông-Sôk: A South Korean Exemplum of a Messiah Nathalie Luca13 Readings/Lessons of the Exemplum Pierre-Antoine FabreGeneral Index