Paula COTOI
So Near and Yet so far Away. The Reception of the Homiletic Works of Pelbartus de Themeswar and Osualdus de Lasko in Transylvania
Institution:
Lucian Blaga Central University Library, Cluj-Napoca; George Barițiu History Institute of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca
Author's email:
paulacotoi@gmail.com
Abstract:
Pelbartus de Themeswar and Osualdus de Lasko are the only Hungarian authors of sermon collections in the Middle Ages. For a research concerning medieval preaching in Transylvania, focusing mainly on the reception of homiletic literature, their works are of a special importance. As they were compiled in the proximity, one might expect that these preaching aids arouse the interest of the Transylvanian public and the amount of copies currently preserved in local libraries suggests the same. The present paper questions the provenance of these volumes in order to determine to what extent they were received, circulated and used in this province of the Hungarian Kingdom at the end of the Middle Ages.
