In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (C. 1200-1550): 9 (Commentaria)

by: Pietro Delcoo (Author)

Publisher: BRILL

Publication Date: 21 Sept. 2017

Language: English

Print Length: 640 pages

ISBN-10: 9004315071

ISBN-13: 9789004315075

Book Description

In In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (c. 1200-1550) Pietro Delcoo reconstructs how this biblical parable became, particularly through preaching, a key master narrative in shaping religious identity in medieval and Reformation Europe.