The Ten Commandments in Medieval and early modern culture / edited by Youri Desplenter, Jürgen Pieters, Walter Melion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : exploring the decalogue in late medieval and early modern culture / Youri Desplenter and Jürgen Pieters -- The ten commandments in the medieval Schools : Conformity or Diversity? / Lesley Smith -- 'Ché se potuto aveste veder tutto / mestier non era parturir Maria' : Dante on the Decalogue as a means to salvation / Luca Gili -- Fit for a prince : the ten alternative Commandments in Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea / Charlotte E. Cooper -- Loving neighbor before god : the first commandment in early modern lyric poetry / Gregory P. Haake -- The ten commandments and pastoral care in late-medieval and early modern Europe : an inquiry into expectations and outcomes / Robert J. Bast -- The ten commandments in the thirteenth-century pastoral manual Qui bene presunt / Greti Dinkova-Bruun -- Morals from a mystical cook : Jan van Leeuwen and the ten commandments / Youri Desplenter -- Latin mnemonic verses combining the ten commandments with the ten plagues of Egypt transmitted in late medieval Bohemia / Lucie Doležalová -- The ten commandments in preaching in late medieval Poland : 'Sermo de praeceptis' from Ms. 3022 at the national library in Warsaw / Krzysztof Bracha -- The law illuminated : biblical illustrations of the commandments in Lutheran catechisms / Henk van den Belt -- Man and god : the first three commandments in the Polish Catholic catechisms of the 1560s-1570s / Waldemar Kowalski.