CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Conti, Fabrizio |
|---|---|
| Title | Preachers and Confessors against "Superstitions". The Rosarium Sermonum by Bernardino Busti and its Milanese Context (Late Fifteenth Century) |
| Summary | This study is divided into three main parts. The first part will situate Bernardino Busti, his Rosarium Sermonum and the other main texts to be used as reference points within the development of the Observant Franciscan movement. Moreover, a discourse on preaching, confession, and the relevance of sin will be approached. Finally, the development of multifaceted grids to classify sin and the final choice of the Decalogue as the main one will be also dealt with. The second part will focus on the core issue of “superstition,” precisely within the specific genre of the pastoral approach based on the Ten Commandments. Within the issue of “superstition” I shall show how the problem of witchcraft-related beliefs arose. The third part will analyse, how a specific Observant Franciscan approach appeared within this context, focused on fifteenth century Milan and Lombardy. Busti’s specific stance, confirmed and deepened by Cassini, was in favour of a confident defence of the unreality of some elements related to witchcraft-beliefs, first of all the mythology of the ludus Diane. |
| Supervisor | Klaniczay, Gabor |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/mphcof01.pdf |
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