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The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Hardcover

Art HistoryMedieval & Renaissance HistoryEuropean Art

ISBN10: 9004309829
ISBN13: 9789004309821
Publisher: Brill
Published: Sep 15 2017
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as more and more vernacular commentaries on the Decalogue were produced throughout Europe, the moral system of the Ten Commandments gradually became more prominent. The Ten Commandments proved to be a topic from which numerous proponents of pastoral and lay catechesis drew inspiration. Gods commands were discussed and illustrated in sermons and confessors manuals, and they spawned new theological and pastoral treatises both Catholic and Reformed. But the Decalogue also served several authors, including Dante, Petrarch, and Christine de Pizan. Unlike the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ten Commandments supported a more positive image of mankind, one that embraced the human potential for introspection and the conscious choice to follow Gods Law.

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