The Art of Preaching: Five Medieval Texts and Translations
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
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.
- Offers critical editions of five instruction manuals on the “art of preaching” dating from 1230 to the fifteenth century
- Each of the five sermons is accompanied by a facing-page translation into English
- 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
Siegfried Wenzel’s The Art of Preaching: Five Medieval Texts and Translations, an outstanding contribution to scholarship on the artes praedicandi, provides invaluable editions and translations of five artes praedicandi as well as four appendices... Scholars will welcome the editions with accompanying side-by-side translations as a handy tool for research and a useful text in courses on medieval rhetoric, Latin, and preaching. This volume will prove itself indispensable, as it makes valuable resources available to students and scholars who seek to understand the role of the artes praedicandi in medieval preaching.
Beverly Mayne Kienzle - Speculum
The work that Wenzel applies to the Latin text aims to make it both readable and semi-critical... a book of reference in which one can be assured that the texts are well-constructed, accurate, and elegantly laid-out. The translations are graceful, correct, and stay close to the Latin text. The introductory and supplemental materials are to the point and knowledgeable. The Art of Preaching will stimulate interest and new research into medieval homiletics.
Humanities and Social Sciences Online
This is, indeed, a great contribution to Medieval Studies, most welcome both by scholars and students alike.
Mediaevistik
- Title: The Art of Preaching: Five Medieval Texts and Translations
- Author: Siegfried Wenzel
- Publisher: Catholic University of America
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 2
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Resource ID: {981425C9-3AF9-4708-93D8-FA978C25D9D4}
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-04T23:12:51Z