The Word and its diffusion
Katherine L. Jansen|Miri Rubin
In the late twelfth century, church formulated a pastoral mission which sought to Christianise Europe anew and, through preaching, diffuse word of God all lands that lay on Christendom's frontiers and well beyond. The Cistercian preaching Cathars signals volte-face in history monastic but not one was altogether unfamiliar. Innocent's pontificate marked by its attentiveness laity's need for spiritual nourishment, ministry preaching. Words, even Bernardino's persuasive words, were always enough lead public away from vices. Observant Franciscans masters genre fused together image, gesture spectacular new way. As events developed into spectacles, so theatre evolved accommodate diffusion Word. With advent printing fifteenth sermon collections, among first texts be printed, initially printed Latin editions.
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