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The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture Intersections Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture Intersections Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture General Editor Karl A.E. Enenkel (Chair of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster e-mail: kenen_01@uni_muenster.de) Editorial Board W. van Anrooij (University of Leiden) W. de Boer (Miami University) Chr. Göttler (University of Bern) J.L. de Jong (University of Groningen) W.S. Melion (Emory University) R. Seidel (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) P.J. Smith (University of Leiden) J. Thompson (Queen’s University Belfast) A. Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin) C. Zittel (University of Stuttgart) C. Zwierlein (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) VOLUME 52 – 2017 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/inte The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture Edited by Youri Desplenter Jürgen Pieters Walter Melion LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover illustration: God gives Moses the Ten Commandments, unknown workshop (Netherlands, 1380–1410). Detail of a pen-and-ink drawing, mounted on fol. 45r of Ms. Wiesbaden, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, 3004 B 10 (c. 1410). Reproduced with permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Desplenter, Youri, editor. Title: The Ten Commandments in medieval and early modern culture / edited by Youri Desplenter, Jürgen Pieters, Walter Melion. Description: Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2017. | Series: Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, ISSN 1568-1181 ; volume 52 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017032444 (print) | LCCN 2017037503 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004325777 (E-book) | ISBN 9789004309821 (hardback : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Ten commandments—History—Congresses. | Commandments of the church—History—Congresses. Classification: LCC BV4720 (ebook) | LCC BV4720 .T46 2017 (print) | DDC 241.5/209—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017032444 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 1568-1181 isbn 978-90-04-30982-1 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-32577-7 (e-book) Copyright 2017 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. 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Contents Acknowledgments VII Notes on the Editors VIII Notes on the Contributors X List of Illustrations xiii Introduction: Exploring the Decalogue in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture 1 Youri Desplenter and Jürgen Pieters 1 The Ten Commandments in the Medieval Schools: Conformity or Diversity? 13 Lesley Smith 2 ‘Ché, se potuto aveste veder tutto / mestier non era parturir Maria’: Dante on the Decalogue as a Means to Salvation 30 Luca Gili 3 Fit For A Prince: The Ten Alternative Commandments in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea 49 Charlotte E. Cooper 4 Loving Neighbour Before God: The First Commandment in Early Modern Lyric Poetry 75 Gregory P. Haake 5 The Ten Commandments and Pastoral Care in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Europe: An Inquiry into Expectations and Outcomes 90 Robert J. Bast 6 The Ten Commandments in the Thirteenth-Century Pastoral Manual Qui bene presunt 113 Greti Dinkova-Bruun 7 Morals from a Mystical Cook: Jan van Leeuwen and the Ten Commandments 133 Youri Desplenter vi CONTENTS 8 Latin Mnemonic Verses Combining the Ten Commandments with the Ten Plagues of Egypt Transmitted in Late Medieval Bohemia 152 Lucie Doležalová 9 The Ten Commandments in Preaching in Late Medieval Poland: ‘Sermo de praeceptis’ from Ms. 3022 at the National Library in Warsaw 173 Krzysztof Bracha 10 The Law Illuminated: Biblical Illustrations of the Commandments in Lutheran Catechisms 196 Henk van den Belt 11 Man and God: The First Three Commandments in the Polish Catholic Catechisms of the 1560s–1570s 219 Waldemar Kowalski Index Nominum 239 Acknowledgements Most of the contributions included in this volume were first presented at the conference The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, held in Ghent (Belgium), on April 10–11, 2014. The conference was part of the research project De Tien Geboden en het ideaal van introspectie en individuatie in de Late Middeleeuwen (ca. 1300–ca. 1550) / The Ten Commandments and the Ideal of Introspective Individuation in the Late Middle Ages (c. 1300–c. 1550). The proj- ect and the conference were generously funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). The editors would also like to thank Lisette Blokker, Sarah Lallemand, and Charlotte Cooper for their help during the editorial process. Notes on the Editors Youri Desplenter is Professor of Historical Dutch Literature (Middle Ages) at Ghent University. He works on Middle Dutch religious and moral-didactic literature, and studies, amongst other topics, the Middle Dutch Psalter translations and writings of the ‘mystical cook’ Jan van Leeuwen († 1378). His recent publications include Al aertrijc segt lofsanc. Middelnederlandse vertalingen van Latijnse hymnen en sequensen (Ghent: 2008) and De Bijbel in de Lage Landen. Elf eeuwen van ver- talen (Heerenveen: 2015; edited with P. Gillaerts, H. Bloemen, W. François, and A. den Hollander). Jürgen Pieters is Professor of Literary Theory at Ghent University. He is the author of several books on the methodology of New Historicism and of a recent monograph on the Dutch early-modern author Constantijn Huygens: Op zoek naar Huygens. Italiaanse leesnotities (Ghent: 2014). Together with Jozef and Laurens De Vos, he published Shakespeare. Auteur voor alle seizoenen (Tielt: 2016). He co-edited collections of articles on the work of Roland Barthes, Catherine Belsey and Stephen Greenblatt. He is currently working on a book that joins together the conceptual histories of ‘literature’ and ‘consolation’. Walter S. Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, where he has taught since 2004 and currently chairs the Art History Department. He was previously Professor and Chair of Art History at The Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centuries, on Jesuit image-theory, on the relation between theology and aesthetics in the early modern period, and on the artist Hendrick Goltzius. In addition to monographs on Jerónimo Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia (2003–2007) and on scriptural illus- tration in the 16th-century Low Countries (2009), his books include Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander’s ‘Schilder-Boeck’ (1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550–1625 (2009). He is co-editor of Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2008), Early Modern Eyes (2010), Meditatio—Refashioning the Self: Theory and Practice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual Culture (2010), The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400–1700 (2011), Ut pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image NOTES ON THE EDITORS ix in Northern Art, 1500–1700 (2012), Imago Exegetica: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400–1700 (2014), The Anthropomorphic Lens: Anthropomorphism, Microcosmism, and Analogy in Early Modern Thought and Visual Arts (2014), Image and Incarnation (2015), and Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion (2016). He was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. Between 2014 and 2015, he was Chaire Francqui at the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Melion was recently awarded the 2016 Disinguished Scholar Award from the American Catholic Historical Association. Notes on the Contributors Robert Bast is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, where he works on religious culture in late medieval and Reformation Europe. From 2003– 2008 he served as founding director of The Marco Institute for Medieval and Reformation Studies, a research center at the University of Tennessee funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Since 2000 he has served as editor-in-chief of Brill’s Studies in the History of Christian Traditions. He is the author of Honor Your Fathers. Catechisms and the Emergence of a Patriarchal Ideology in Germany, 1400–1600 (Leiden: 1997); co-editor, with Andrew Gow, of Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late Medieval and Reformation History: Essays Presented to Heiko A. Oberman on His 70th Birthday (Leiden: 2000), and editor of The Reformation of Faith in the Context of Late Medieval Theology and Piety: Essays by Berndt Hamm (Leiden: 2004). Henk van den Belt (PhD Leiden 2006) is Professor of Reformed Theology: Sources, Development, and Context at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (University of Groningen). His research focuses on the development of Reformed theology and pays special attention to the relationship between religion
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