The Sermons of William Peraldus: An Appraisal

The Sermons of William Peraldus: An Appraisal

by Siegfried Wenzel
The Sermons of William Peraldus: An Appraisal

The Sermons of William Peraldus: An Appraisal

by Siegfried Wenzel

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Overview

The French Dominican William Peraldus or Guillaume Peyraut (died c. 1275), well known for his long summae on the vices and virtues, also produced several cycles of sermons, of which two deal with the Epistle and the Gospel readings for the Sundays of the Church year. This study analyzes the latter in some detail and argues that, rather than collecting sermons he had preached earlier, Peraldus wrote these sermons systematically for the use of other preachers. The Epistle sermons for the first Sunday in Advent and the Gospel sermons for the third Sunday in Advent are presented in their original Latin text together with an English translation in order to demonstrate how Peraldus dealt with the biblical text as well as his moral concerns and his literary style. The selected texts are then compared with several other major cycles produced in France in Peraldus's time. Like his summae on the vices and the virtues, Peraldus's sermons became very popular in medieval Europe, as is witnessed by selective copying and citations that can be seen in a number of instances primarily from the sermon literature of later medieval England. One aspect of this popularity is the adaptation of his material into a genuine sermon, as it can be found in the sermons attributed to Repingdon, of which one is here examined in detail.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9782503567983
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Publication date: 04/18/2017
Series: Sermo , #13
Pages: 219
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Abbreviations x

A Note on References and Editorial Practices xi

Chapter 1 Sermon Collections, Sermon Cycles 1

Chapter 2 The Epistle Sermons 9

Chapter 3 The Epistle Sermons - Style 21

Chapter 4 The Gospel Sermons 31

Chapter 5 Peraldus and his Contemporaries 39

Chapter 6 Popularity 57

Chapter 7 From Biblical Exegesis to Sermon 67

Chapter 8 Epilogue 75

Appendix A Episde Sermons 77

Appendix B Gospel Sermons 83

Appendix C The Epistle Sermons for the First Sunday in Advent - Text 91

Appendix D The Epistle Sermons for the First Sunday in Advent - Translation 101

Appendix E The Gospel Sermons for the Third Sunday in Advent - Text 115

Appendix F The Gospel Sermons for the Third Sunday in Advent - Translation 133

Appendix G Peraldus in the Sorbon Manuscripts 157

Appendix H Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 233/199 159

Appendix I Cambridge, St John's College, MS C.12 163

Appendix J Repingdon on Cum audisset 177

Appendix K The Redacted Sermon on Cum audisset 193

Works Cited 203

Index of Manuscripts Cited 211

General Index 213

Tables

Table 1 Repingdon, sermon Cum audisset 68

Table 2 Redacted, two sermons on Cum audisset 72

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