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A Macaronic Sermon Collection from Late Medieval England

2006

The introduction contains a paleographical description of the manuscript, its date and provenance, and surveys the structure and form of the sermons, their sources, content, and style. [...] I am also grateful to the trustees of the Bodleian Library for permission to publish the sermons and to the various officials and staff members of the Bodleian, especially those in Duke Humfrey’s Library, who have, over many years, responded to a host of questions and requests. [...] A study of the sermon collection as a whole enables more intensive examination of a preacher’s application of such princi- ples over an extensive body of work and an analysis of the ways in which he adapts well-known motifs and commonplaces (such as the ship of state and the pillar of the temple) or uses familiar anecdotes and examples. [...] The orange tint of the hair sides of the parchment and the metallic, dark-brown ink are characteristic of Oxford manuscripts as are the flourishes used in decorated initial letters.2. [...] In contrast to the set 1 sermons, they are, for the most part, addressed to gen- eral audiences, loosely organized, popular in style and generic in content; above all, they lack the macaronic characteristics of the sermons of set 1. Wenzel has also noted that, stylistically, the sermons of set 2 are reminiscent of the work of the “classicizing friars” and that several of them have other suggestion
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Authors

Patrick J. Horner

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [532]-537) and index
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CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
252/.02
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9781771100106 9780888441539
LCCN
PA8045.E5 BX1756 A2
LCCN Item number
M33 2006eb M33 2006eb
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CaBNVSL
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CaOONL
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1 electronic text (544 p.)
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00224202 (OCoLC)759101487 (CaOOCEL)432748
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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CaOONL

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