The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Caesarius of Heisterbach's "Dialogue on Miracles" and Its Reception

Aknowledgements ix
List of Illustration x
List of Manuscripts Cited xii
Abbreviations xiv
List of Contributors xv
Introduction / Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Victoria Smirnova and Jacques Berlioz 1
PART 1. The Cistercian Art of \'Making Believe\' (\'Faire Croire\')
1. The Monk Who Loved to Listen: Trying to Understand Caesarius / Brian Patrick McGuire 31
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 51
3. Caesarius of Heisterbach Following the Rules of Rhetoric (Or Not?) / Victoria Smirnova 79
4. Visual Imagination in Religious Persuasion: Mental Imagery in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s \'Dialogus miraculorum\' (VIII, 31) / Marie Formarier 97
PART 3. Elaboration and Dissemination of a Narrative Theology
5. Narrative Theology in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s \'Dialogus miraculorum\' / Victoria Smirnova 121
6. \'Exempla\' and Historiography. Alberic of Trois-Fontaines’s Reading of Caesarius’s \'Dialogus miraculorum\' / Stefano Mula 143
PART 4. The Use of the Cistercian Heritage in Dominican Preaching
7. The Making of a New \'Auctoritas\': The \'Dialogus miraculorum\' Read and Rewritten by the Dominican Arnold of Liège / Elisa Brili 163
8. \'Dialogus miraculorum\': The Initial Source of Inspiration for Johannes Gobi the Younger’s \'Scala coeli\'? / Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu 183
PART 5. The \'Dialogus miraculorum\' in Translation
9. On a Former Mayor of Deventer: Derick van den Wiel, the \'Devotio moderna\' and the Middle Dutch Translation of the \'Dialogus miraculorum\' / Jasmin Margarete Hlatky 213
10. The \'Dialogus miraculorum\' in the Light of Its Fifteenth-century German Translation by Johannes Hartlieb / Elena Koroleva 227
11. Caesarius of Heisterbach in the New Spain (1570–1770) / Danièle Dehouve 242
PART 6. Roundtable: \'Making Believe. Stories and Persuasion: Continuity, Reconfiguration and Disruption, Thirteenth – Twenty-first Centuries\'
12. From Caesarius to Jông Myông-Sôk: A South Korean \'Exemplum\' of a Messiah / Nathalie Luca 271
13. Readings/Lessons of the Exemplum / Pierre-Antoine Fabre 280
General Index 283