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Spiritual Calculations

Number and Numeracy in Late Medieval English Sermons

By: Christine Cooper-Rompato

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Spiritual Calculations

Number and Numeracy in Late Medieval English Sermons

By: Christine Cooper-Rompato

Medieval English sermons teem with examples of quantitative reasoning, ranging from the arithmetical to the numerological, and regularly engage with numerical concepts. Examining sermons written in Middle English and Latin, this book reveals that popular English-speaking audiences were encouraged to engage in a wide range of numerate operations in their daily religious practices. Medieval sermonists promoted numeracy as a way for audiences to appreciate divine truth. Their sermons educated audiences in a hybrid form of numerate practice—one that relied on individuals’ pragmatic quantitative reasoning, which, when combined with spiritual interpretations of numbers provided by the preacher, created a deep and rich sense in which number was the best way to approach the sacred mysteries of the world as well as to learn how one could best live as a Christian. Analyzing both published and previously unpublished sermons and sermon cycles, Christine Cooper-Rompato explores the use of numbers, arithmetic, and other mathematical operations to better understand how medieval laypeople used math as a means to connect with God. Spiritual Calculations enhances our understanding of medieval sermons and sheds new light on how receptive audiences were to this sophisticated rhetorical form. It will be welcomed by scholars of Middle English literature, medieval sermon studies, religious experience, and the history of mathematics.

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Penn State Press

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0271092041

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The Gift of Tongues

Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages

By: Christine F. Cooper-Rompato

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The Gift of Tongues

Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages

By: Christine F. Cooper-Rompato

Tales of xenoglossia—the instantaneous ability to read, to write, to speak, or to understand a foreign language—have long captivated audiences. Perhaps most popular in Christian religious literature, these stories celebrate the erasing of all linguistic differences and the creation of wider spiritual communities. The accounts of miraculous language acquisition that appeared in the Bible inspired similar accounts in the Middle Ages. Though medieval xenoglossic miracles have their origins in those biblical stories, the medieval narratives have more complex implications. In The Gift of Tongues, Christine Cooper-Rompato examines a wide range of sources to show that claims of miraculous language are much more important to medieval religious culture than previously recognized and are crucial to understanding late medieval English writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Margery Kempe.

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0271099402

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The Gift of Tongues

Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages

By: Christine F. Cooper-Rompato

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Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages

By: Christine F. Cooper-Rompato

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0271099410

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Spiritual Calculations

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