TY - BOOK ID - 16184721 TI - The ten Commandments in medieval and early modern culture AU - Desplenter, Youri AU - Pieters, Jürgen AU - Melion, Walter PY - 2017 VL - 52 SN - 9789004309821 9004309829 9789004325777 9004325778 PB - Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Ten commandments KW - Commandments of the church KW - Church commandments KW - Church precepts KW - Precepts of the church KW - Church discipline KW - History KW - Bible KW - History of civilization KW - anno 500-1499 KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16184721 AB - Over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as more and more vernacular commentaries on the Decalogue were produced throughout Europe, the moral system of the Ten Commandments gradually became more prominent. The Ten Commandments proved to be a topic from which numerous proponents of pastoral and lay catechesis drew inspiration. God’s commands were discussed and illustrated in sermons and confessor’s manuals, and they spawned new theological and pastoral treatises both Catholic and Reformed. But the Decalogue also served several authors, including Dante, Petrarch, and Christine de Pizan. Unlike the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ten Commandments supported a more positive image of mankind, one that embraced the human potential for introspection and the conscious choice to follow God’s Law. ER -