Starting from the famous scenes of Antony of Padua’s sermon to the fishes and Francis of Assisi’s preaching to the birds, this contribution highlights how the Friars Minor’s preaching formed a discursive space that gave voice and representation to new segments of the thirteenth-century urban society. From the experimental initiatives of Francis to the well-planned preaching campaigns of Anthony of Padua and Berthold of Regensburg, the friars were able to speak to a society in profound transformation and marked by tensions and fears. The crowds gathering to hear the preachers were moved by the perception that what was announced in an accessible language was actually relevant for their lives. Somehow, within this communicative process the preacher addressed a large crowd, and yet each one in the audience – at least in some moments – had the impression to be the preacher’s actual addressee, as in a personal conversation. That is to say, they felt to be not a shapeless mob, yet real interlocutors.
Partendo dalle celebri scene della predica di Antonio di Padova ai pesci e di Francesco d’Assisi agli uccelli, il contributo mette in luce come la predicazione dei Frati minori costituisse uno spazio discorsivo che dava voce e rappresentanza a nuovi segmenti della società urbana del Duecento. Dalle iniziative sperimentali di Francesco alle campagne di predicazione ben pianificate di Antonio di Padova e di Bertoldo di Ratisbona, i frati furono in grado di parlare a una società in profonda trasformazione, segnata da tensioni e paure. Le folle che si radunavano per ascoltare i predicatori erano mosse dalla percezione che ciò che veniva annun-ciato in un linguaggio accessibile era effettivamente rilevante per la loro vita. In qualche modo, all’interno di questo processo comunicativo, il predicatore si rivolgeva a una grande folla, eppure ogni persona tra gli ascoltatori – almeno in alcuni momenti – aveva l’impressione di essere il vero destinatario del discorso, come in una conversazione personale. Si sentivano cioè non parte di una folla indistinta, ma veri e propri interlocutori del predicatore.
Pietro Delcorno (2023). Predicatori e moltitudini: dare un volto alla folla (secolo XIII). ARTES, 2, 15-40 [10.6092/issn.2974-7287/18294].
Predicatori e moltitudini: dare un volto alla folla (secolo XIII)
Pietro Delcorno
2023
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Starting from the famous scenes of Antony of Padua’s sermon to the fishes and Francis of Assisi’s preaching to the birds, this contribution highlights how the Friars Minor’s preaching formed a discursive space that gave voice and representation to new segments of the thirteenth-century urban society. From the experimental initiatives of Francis to the well-planned preaching campaigns of Anthony of Padua and Berthold of Regensburg, the friars were able to speak to a society in profound transformation and marked by tensions and fears. The crowds gathering to hear the preachers were moved by the perception that what was announced in an accessible language was actually relevant for their lives. Somehow, within this communicative process the preacher addressed a large crowd, and yet each one in the audience – at least in some moments – had the impression to be the preacher’s actual addressee, as in a personal conversation. That is to say, they felt to be not a shapeless mob, yet real interlocutors.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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