In the later Middle Ages, preachers learned how to structure a
sermon from technical treatises called artes praedicandi. These
treatises taught and illustrated how to select a biblical text for
the sermon of a given day and then develop it by means of divisions
and various kinds of expansion. Their exposition is highly
technical and sometimes can be obscure. About 240 such works are
known to exist in Latin, but only a few of them have been edited
and even fewer translated into modern English. Based on his
wide-ranging knowledge of late-medieval Latin sermons from England
as well as his editorial experience with medieval Latin texts,
Siegfried Wenzel offers critical editions of five instruction
manuals on the ""art of preaching"" dating from 1230 to the
fifteenth century. Four of the texts are edited and translated for
the first time; the fifth is re-edited from all extant manuscripts.
Each of the five sermons is accompanied by a facing-page
translation into English. The book aims to stimulate interest and
new research in a field that still awaits closer analysis of the
relationships among existing treatises and of their historical
development.
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