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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.
The Middle English lyric is intimately related to late medieval
preaching, not only because many lyrical poems have been preserved
in sermon manuscripts, but also because preaching furnished a
unique opportunity to create and utilize poems. Preachers, Poets,
and the Early English Lyric explores this relationship in detail.
Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
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Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
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Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
The Middle English lyric is intimately related to late medieval
preaching, not only because many lyrical poems have been preserved
in sermon manuscripts, but also because preaching furnished a
unique opportunity to create and utilize poems. Preachers, Poets,
and the Early English Lyric explores this relationship in
detail.
Originally published in 1986.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
Between the early thirteenth and late fifteenth centuries,
theologians and preachers in Western Europe adopted a distinct and
rigidly structured sermon format. The scholastic sermon, as it was
known, was taught through technical treatises known as artes
praedicandi, of which approximately 230 survive. A dense and
complicated arrangement, modern scholars often find the scholastic
sermon challenging to understand and interpret. In this concise
text, Siegfried Wenzel focuses on the main features of the sermon,
from the initial thema to the concluding prayer. Medieval Artes
Praedicandi also includes an annotated list of forty-two major
surviving artes praedicandi, discussing the evolution of the genre,
and a structural analysis of a sample sermon (from Worcester
Cathedral Library Ms. F.10), which shows how the prescriptions of
the artes were applied. Written by a leading expert on the late
medieval scholastic sermon, Medieval Artes Praedicandi is an
essential resource for scholars and advanced students interested in
using scholastic sermons in their research.
Wenzel presents the history of the concept of "acedia," of
spiritual sloth," from its origins among the Egyptian desert monks
through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The investigation
proceeds in chronological order and pays close attention to the
different emphases and changes the concept underwent.
Originally published in 1967.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the
latest in digital technology to make available again books from our
distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These
editions are published unaltered from the original, and are
presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both
historical and cultural value.
Until the Reformation, almost all sermons were written down in
Latin. This is the first scholarly study systematically to describe
and analyse the collections of Latin sermons from the golden age of
medieval preaching in England, the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. Basing his studies on the extant manuscripts, Siegfried
Wenzel analyses these sermons and the occasions when they were
given. Larger issues of preaching in the later Middle Ages such as
the pastoral concern about preaching, originality in sermon making,
and the attitudes of orthodox preachers to Lollardy, receive
detailed attention. The surviving sermons and their collections are
listed for the first time in full inventories, which supplement the
critical and contextual material Wenzel presents. This book is an
important contribution to the study of medieval preaching, and will
be essential for scholars of late medieval literature, history and
religious thought.
Until the Reformation, almost all sermons were written down in
Latin. This is the first scholarly study systematically to describe
and analyse the collections of Latin sermons from the golden age of
medieval preaching in England, the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. Basing his studies on the extant manuscripts, Siegfried
Wenzel analyses these sermons and the occasions when they were
given. Larger issues of preaching in the later Middle Ages such as
the pastoral concern about preaching, originality in sermon making,
and the attitudes of orthodox preachers to Lollardy, receive
detailed attention. The surviving sermons and their collections are
listed for the first time in full inventories, which supplement the
critical and contextual material Wenzel presents. This book is an
important contribution to the study of medieval preaching, and will
be essential for scholars of late medieval literature, history and
religious thought.
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