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Everyday sermons from Worcester Cathedral Priory : an early-fourteenth-century collection in Latin / edited with introduction and commentary by Joan Greatrex with the assistance of Sam Kennerley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Foundations (ARC Humanities Press)
- Foundations
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Worcester Priory.
- Sermons, Latin--England.
- Sermons, Latin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2019.
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Latin.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Edited and with commentary by Joan Greatrex, this book makes available for the first time in printed form the sermon manuscript, MS Q. 18, which survives in its original home in the medieval cathedral library at Worcester. At first glance this small, untidy quarto-size manuscript appears to be merely an unremarkable collection of early fourteenth-century Latin sermons. However, unlike other surviving sermon manuscripts from cathedral priories and major Benedictine abbeys, which had sermons of notable figures like Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Bernard of Clairvaux, the Worcester MS Q. 18 is by contrast a home-grown production consisting only of homilies prepared by mostly anonymous members of the Worcester monastic community. And they are a rare, if not unique, example of working copies of sermons, with the Latin text reworked, altered, and corrected by a number of monks, giving us a unique insight into the mind and the mentality of a medieval monastic community.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements General Introduction Editorial Conventions Worcester Manuscript Q. 18: The Latin text of sermons 1-69 with introduction and commentary Bibliography and Abbreviations.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed May 6, 2024)
- ISBN:
- 1-64189-348-6
- OCLC:
- 1240585406
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