The Art of Preaching: Five Medieval Texts & Translations

by Siegfried Wenzel

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813221374
• ISBN13: 9780813221373
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"