ABSTRACT

Metaphors of physical health and illness occurred frequently in medieval exegesis, with diseased bodies providing figurative language that could be applied to sin and its effects upon the soul. The increasing availability of newly translated medical learning in Europe in the thirteenth century augmented and enriched this discourse in innovative ways. The present paper offers a close analysis of the systematic use of sophisticated medical knowledge in an unpublished collection of model sermons, written c.1240 by the Franciscan preacher Luca da Bitonto. Produced at least 50 years earlier than comparable sermons previously shown to contain advanced medical metaphor, Luca’s sermons offer new evidence for the intellectual and theological contexts in which thirteenth-century preachers sought out detailed and accurate knowledge of the natural world, and for the ways in which new medical knowledge was disseminated and incorporated into medieval religious discourse.

摘要

身体健康和疾病的隐喻经常出现在中世纪的注释中，患病的身体提供了可以应用于罪恶及其对灵魂的影响的比喻语言。13 世纪欧洲新翻译的医学知识越来越多，以创新的方式增强和丰富了这一话语。本文对在未出版的模范布道集中系统地使用复杂的医学知识进行了仔细分析，写于 c.1240 由方济会传教士 Luca da Bitonto 创作。卢卡的布道比先前显示包含先进医学隐喻的同类布道至少早 50 年制作，为 13 世纪的布道者寻求关于自然世界的详细而准确的知识的知识和神学背景提供了新的证据，以及哪些新的医学知识被传播并融入中世纪的宗教话语中。