{"title":"An Old Norse Adaptation of a Christmas Sermon by Honorius Augustodunensis","authors":"Stephen Pelle","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2017.1368576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368576","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article contains a study, edition, and translation of a fragment of an Old Norse Christmas sermon, which survives in the fourteenth-century manuscript AM 655 XX 4to at the University of Copenhagen. The extant part of this text is based on a sermon from the Speculum ecclesiae collection, written by Honorius Augustodunensis around the beginning of the twelfth century. The Old Norse sermon is an important witness to Honorius’s influence on medieval Icelandic and Norwegian religious literature. Another sermon in the same manuscript deals with the subject of confession. Two exempla from this second sermon are transcribed and translated in an appendix.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"44 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48049339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prêcher sur le prêche. La réflexion de Maurice de Sully sur l’importance et la nature de la prédication","authors":"Beata Spieralska-kasprzyk","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2017.1368579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368579","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper presents an analysis of the work of Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris (1160–96) and the author of one of the earliest complete collections of sermons for lay people. The focus of the analysis is the idea of the preaching as it was understood by the preachers themselves. The importance and the nature of this pastoral activity are quite often presented in the sermons. They also seem to be alluded to through the structure of the sermons and vocabulary used by the preacher.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"73 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368579","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43217469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Models of Virtues: The Roles of Virtues in Sermons and Hagiography for New Saints’ Cult (13th to 15th Century). Ed. by Eleonora Lombardo. International Meeting, Porto 22–23 March 2013. Pp. vii + 326. Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2016. ISBN 978-88-95908-01-4","authors":"Ralf Lützelschwab","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2017.1368593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368593","url":null,"abstract":"Legatus a Latere Christi: Provence, Lombardy, and in Between; (3) Iberian Return and the Compromise of Casp; (4) Moral Reform and Peacemaking; (5) Segregation and Conversion; (6) Antichrist, 1403, and (7) Final Journeys: Perpignan, Vannes, and in Between. The volume closes with a ‘Conclusion’ where he reminds the reader that notwithstanding certain perspectives that would make people uncomfortable today, Vicent had many qualities worthy of admiration. Most importantly, we would be greatly remiss if we ignored Vicent’s stature and influence in his day. The Appendices and Notes are an effective instrument to delve deeper into the life and writings of Vicent. He unpacks the complexities of his writings concerning date of composition, disputed writings, and vexing questions that occupy those who have expertise on Vicent. The second on his ‘Sermons’ lays out for the reader the major editions and translations that have been published to date. He also describes here the unfortunate loss of manuscripts during the Spanish Civil War, those that survived, and the rediscovery of lost sermons. He also gives a fine summary of the much discussed question as to which language or languages Vicent primarily used to preach and the related question if he had facility in other languages to preach. It is the best discussion that I have seen anywhere in English. The last section is devoted to the ‘Canonization Process’ for which we have extensive documentation. The section ‘Notes’ spans fifty pages and many of them have further discussion of numerous topics. As to the relationship between the notes and bibliography, many works in the latter do not appear directly cited in the notes. The modestly named ‘Selected Bibliography’ is quite thorough; it will be of great use for those who want further acquaintance with Vicent Ferrer. The bibliography is divided into these categories: Manuscripts, Published Sources: Sermons, Treatises and Correspondence, Published Sources/Others, and Secondary Works. An adequate Index closes the volume. This very well written and documented work on St Vicent Ferrer deserves reading by novice and specialist alike. Philip Daileader has done a great service to English-speaking readers by making this important and fascinating Dominican preacher better known. It is written lucidly, with academic rigor, and a good balance of divergent views while not shying away from offering his opinions about disputed topics. The author and editors of Palgrave/Macmillan are to be lauded for bringing to light this informative and splendid volume.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"92 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368593","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48900498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dominican Dignitaries and Private Preaching at Papal Avignon Part II: The Sermon by Hugues de Vaucemain (14 April 1340)","authors":"B. Beattie","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2017.1368573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368573","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The survival of two sermons, both by Dominican dignitaries, both delivered in the private chapel of Cardinal Pierre de Prés during the Lenten cycle of 1340, and both preserved in the same manuscript, provides a rare opportunity to explore the phenomenon of private preaching at the Avignonese curia. In the first of a three-part series, I presented the sermon by the Dominican Provincial Prior of France, Pierre de Palme; in this, the second part, I present the text of the sermon by the Master-General, Hugues de Vaucemain; analysis and observations will come in the third and final part.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"19 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368573","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41556798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nicholas of Cusa’s Brixen Sermons and Late Medieval Church Reform. By Richard J. Serina, Jr. Pp. 257. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 182. Leiden: Brill, 2016. ISBN 978-90-04-32172-4","authors":"D. Duclow","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2017.1368590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368590","url":null,"abstract":"104 (= bed pour Dolbeau). Quatre indices (« locorum Sacrae Scripturae », « fontium », « collectionum », « codicum »), de longueur et d’intérêt variés, viennent augmenter d’une cinquantaine de pages cet imposant volume. Je doute de la pertinence, dans un cas comme celui-ci, d’un « Index fontium » (p. [772]). D’abord parce qu’on y trouve recensés, fort curieusement, le De orthographia et les homélies de Bède et les sermons de Césaire (pour ce dernier, d’ailleurs, la première référence est décalée : le passage en question se lit p. 67–68), qui auraient eu plutôt leur place dans un « Index testimoniorum » incluant également tous les citateurs et florilégistes de la tradition indirecte. Ensuite parce que, une fois écartés ces deux auteurs, la liste des sources se résumerait à un parallèle avec un sermon d’Augustin dans le s. 173 et à un écho virgilien. Or, il ne s’agit là que des seuls parallèles indiqués dans un apparat spécifique ; il n’est que de se reporter aux précédentes éditions des s. Dolbeau pour mesurer l’ampleur des parallèles augustiniens qu’il est possible d’identifier (certains sont signalés, mais dans l’apparat critique, pour justifier le choix d’une leçon ou étayer une conjecture : p. 59, 97, 112, 115, 206, 207, 572, 581) ; de même, d’autres parallèles augustiniens, indiqués dans l’apparat critique (p. 463) ne sont pas repris parmi les sources. Les deux indices suivants, en revanche, qui recensent les mentions des collections de sermons augustiniens, mais surtout celles des manuscrits cités ou utilisés, sont d’autant plus précieux que la masse de ces témoins (trois cents) est tout à fait considérable. Ils appellent de menues corrections ou précisions. Le manuscrit de la Badische Landesbibliothek de Karlsruhe (D) utilisé pour l’édition du s. 171 et mentionné p. [451] et 455 (et indexé p. 776), n’est pas le ms. 110 (X, prov. Metz, Célestins), mais le ms. Aug. CXLIII (s. X, prov. Reichenau). Par ailleurs, le ms. Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 8566, cité une vingtaine de fois dans le volume, est toujours donné sans origine ni provenance : on pourrait ajouter que c’est un manuscrit vraisemblablement français (son rattachement à l’abbaye de Malmedy, parfois proposé, n’est en effet pas assuré). P. 470, le ms. Paris, BnF, NAL 448, IX, est par erreur daté du XI s. ; du reste, Besançon n’est pas son lieu d’origine (le manuscrit a été composé par Mannon de Sait-Oyen, soit à Lyon soit à Saint-Oyen), mais l’endroit où le livre est attesté à partir du","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"88 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368590","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46519013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sancti Aurelii Augustini Sermones in epistolas Apostolicas II, id est Sermones CLVII–CLXXXIII secundum ordinem vulgatum, insertis etiam aliquot sermonibus post Maurinos repertis. Recensuit Shari Boodts, cuius seriei undecim sermones ediderunt François Dolbeau, Gert Partoens, Mon Torfs, Clemens Weidm","authors":"Jérémy Delmulle","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2017.1368589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368589","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"86 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368589","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43007873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dominican Dignitaries and Private Preaching at Papal Avignon Part I: The Sermon by Pierre de Palme (12 March 1340)","authors":"B. Beattie","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2016.1225384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2016.1225384","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Private preaching at papal Avignon (or in general, for that matter) has yet to receive much scholarly attention, in part because the texts of private sermons are not always easy to come by. The survival of two private sermons, both by Dominican dignitaries and both delivered to the same audience (a cardinal and his familia) in the same venue during the same Lenten preaching cycle, provide an opportunity to explore the phenomenon of private preaching at the Avignonese curia. In the first article of a three-part series, I present the edited text of the sermon by Pierre de Palme, Prior of the Dominican Province of France; the second text will appear in part II, with analysis and observations in the third and final part.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"21 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2016.1225384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60289306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Beware of false prophets’: A Fragment of the Old Swedish Miracle Homily Book","authors":"Jonathan Adams","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2016.1225383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2016.1225383","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article comprises an introduction to and an edition and translation of an Old Swedish sermon fragment found in the Hannaas Collection at the Ethno-Folkloristic Archive, University of Bergen, Norway (Hannaas 66). This previously unpublished paper fragment is one of the missing parts of the Old Swedish Homily Book (known as Svensk järteckens postilla), dating from the second half of the fifteenth century and now housed at the Royal Library in Stockholm, Sweden (Cod. Holm. A 111). The text in Hannaas 66 comprises a sermon for the 8th Sunday after Trinity based on Matthew 7. 15–16 and includes a miracle exemplum that illustrates the importance of acting justly and following the will of God.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"20 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2016.1225383","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60289235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}