Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England: Orthodox Preaching in the Age of Wyclif (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Cambridge University Press, 2/17/2005
EAN 9780521841825, ISBN10: 0521841828
Hardcover, 740 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 4.4 cm
Language: English
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.
Prolegomena
Part I. The Collections
1. Overview
2. John Sheppey (SH)
3. Richard FitzRalph (FI)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct.F.inf.2 (F)
5. John Waldeby (WA)
6. Thomas Brinton (BR)
7. Philip Repingdon (RE)
8. John Felton (FE)
9. Mirk's Festial
10. Robert Rypon (RY)
11. Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 199 (P1)
12. Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 257 (P2)
13. Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 356/583 (C)
14. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 649 (O)
15. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 706 (R)
16. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 200 (L)
17. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lat. th. d. 1 (Q)
18. John Dygon (DY)
19. Oxford, Magdalen College, MS 96 (CO)
20. Oxford, Balliol College, MS 149 (S)
21. Henry Chambron
22. Toulouse, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 342 (D)
23. Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.4.24 (B)
24. Cambridge, Jesus College, MS 13 (J)
25. Worcester Cathedral Library, MS.F.126 (X)
26. Worcester Cathedral Library, MS F.10 (W)
27. Hereford Cathedral Library, MS O.iii.5 (E)
28. Oxford, Trinity College, MS 42 (V)
29. Richard Alkerton
30. Thomas Wimbledon, 'Redde rationem'
31. Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.3.8 (A)
32. Arras, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 184 (154) (Z)
33. London, St Paul's Cathedral Library, MS 8 (Y)
34. London, British Library, MS Harley 331 (H)
35. Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS Latin 367 (M)
36. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Barlow 24 (N)
37. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 392 (K)
38. On the margins
Part II. Occasions of Preaching
39. Introduction
40. Preaching in the medieval church and in the parishes
41. Bishops as preachers
42. Monastic preaching
43. The Friars
44. University preaching
45. Other occasions
Part III. Orthodox Preaching
46. An English theology
47. Preaching and the pastoral office
48. The word of God and Pastoralia
49. The preacher's voice
50. Orthodox and heterodox
Final reflections
Inventories
Works cited
Index.