Benjamin Durham is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He is a specialist on the Latin manuscript tradition, scholastic theology, and the nascent stages of the university system in Western Europe. His dissertation is a commentary on and edition of several sermons by Peter Comestor, a twelfth-century theologian and chancellor of the Notre-Dame cathedral school at Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
To paraphrase the French Biblical scholar, Ceslas Spicq, the medieval sermon is a theological commentary of an inspired theme. Accordingly, I seek to understand how Catholic theologians in and around twelfth-century Paris assembled disparate authoritative sources (e.g. Patristic commentaries, Roman literature, hagiographies, liturgical manuals, archaeology) to preach on a variety of doctrinal controversies and topics as motivated by a single passage from Scripture. Furthermore, I collate manuscript witnesses to these sermons to understand how audiences comprehended and transmitted scholastic preaching within a classroom and\/or cloistered setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Review of John of Morigny, Liber florum celestis doctrine: The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching<\/em>, ed. Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2015). In Journal of Medieval Latin<\/em> 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" University of Toronto Benjamin Durham is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He is a specialist on the Latin manuscript tradition, scholastic theology, and the nascent stages of the university system in Western Europe. His dissertation is a commentary on and edition of several sermons by Peter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[141,142,143,139,138],"class_list":{"0":"post-545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"category-practices-of-commentary","9":"tag-intellectual-culture","10":"tag-latin-manuscript-tradition","11":"tag-palaeography","12":"tag-scholastic-preaching","13":"tag-scholastic-theology","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}