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A Mendicant Sermon Collection from Composition to Reception

The 'Novum Opus Dominicale' of John Waldeby Oesa

by Akae Yuichi, Yuichi Akae

  • Hardback
  • 372 pages
  • Publisher: Brepols N.V.
  • 16.3 x 24.2 x 2.3 cm

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This study analyzes in detail the Novum opus dominicale of John Waldeby, a member of the convent of the Augustinian friars in York. This unedited collection of some sixty sermons for Sundays and major feasts is extant in two manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford), MSS Laud misc. 77 and Bodley 687. The present study places the work and the preacher within the wider context of mendicant preaching as mass communication in the Middle Ages. In doing so, it focuses on the educational environment which encompasses conventual education and preaching to the laity, and on the library in which this model sermon collection was compiled and used, identifying the role and meticulous design of the mendicant library collection. Through a detailed examination of sermon form in conjunction with Robert of Basevorn's Forma praedicandi, it tries to disentangle the intricate considerations involved in the processes of sermon composition and reveals the strategies of interpretation and communication in the use of exempla and imagery in preaching. It investigates the careful organization of Waldeby's work as a cycle of sermons for an entire year. In this way, it makes possible a deeper understanding of a wide range of complex issues from composition to reception through the prism of this important fourteenth-century sermon collection.
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  • Title

    A Mendicant Sermon Collection from Composition to Reception

  • Authors

    Akae Yuichi +1

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Brepols N.V.

  • Published

    March 2015

  • Weight

    636g

  • Page Count

    372

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 24.2 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9782503530345

  • ISBN-10

    2503530346

  • Eden Code

    4285156

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