The art of Cistercian persuasion in the Middle Ages and beyond : Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogue on miracles and its reception

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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Manuscripts Cited Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Victoria Smirnova and Jacques Berlioz PART 1 The Cistercian Art of 'Making Believe' (Faire Croire) 1 The Monk Who Loved to Listen: Trying to Understand Caesarius Brian Patrick McGuire PART 2 In Search of a Cistercian Rhetoric 2 To What Extent Were the Twelfth-Century Cistercians Interested in Rhetorical Treatises? Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk 3 Caesarius of Heisterbach Following the Rules of Rhetoric (Or Not?) Victoria Smirnova 4 Visual Imagination in Religious Persuasion: Mental Imagery in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum (VIII, 31) Marie Formarier PART 3 Elaboration and Dissemination of a Narrative Theology 5 Narrative Theology in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum Victoria Smirnova 6 Exempla and Historiography. Alberic of Trois-Fontaines's Reading of Caesarius's Dialogus miraculorum Stefano Mula PART 4 The Use of the Cistercian Heritage in Dominican Preaching 7 The of a New Auctoritas: The Dialogus miraculorum Read and Rewritten by the Dominican Arnold of Liege Elisa Brili 8 Dialogus miraculorum: The Initial Source of Inspiration for Johannes Gobi the Younger's Scala coeli? Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu PART 5 The Dialogus miraculorum in Translation 9 On a Former Mayor of Deventer: Derick van den Wiel, the Devotiomoderna and the Middle Dutch Translation of the Dialogus miraculorum Jasmin Margarete Hlatky 10 The Dialogus miraculorum in the Light of Its Fifteenth-century German Translation by Johannes Hartlieb Elena Koroleva 11 Caesarius of Heisterbach in the New Spain (1570-1770) Daniele Dehouve PART 6 Roundtable: Making Believe. Stories and Persuasion:Continuity, Reconfiguration and Disruption, Thirteenth-Twenty-first Centuries 12 From Caesarius to Jong Myong-Sok: A South Korean Exemplum of a Messiah Nathalie Luca 13 Readings/Lessons of the Exemplum Pierre-Antoine Fabre General Index

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