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The Art of Preaching: Five Medieval Texts and Translations
Siegfried Wenzel
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Hardcover. In the later Middle Ages, preachers learned how to structure a sermon Num Pages: 267 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: HRCP; HRCX4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813221373
SKU
V9780813221373
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About Siegfried Wenzel
Siegfried Wenzel, a longtime professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA is author or editor of numerous books and articles, most recently Preaching in the Age of Chaucer (CUA Press). Wenzel is recipient of the Medieval Academy of America’s prestigious Charles Homer Haskins Medal for his contributions ... Read more
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