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Mediæval Preachers and Mediæval Preaching
Medival Preachers and Medival Preaching Author:John Mason Neale Subtitle: A Series of Extracts, Translated From the Sermons of the Middle Ages, Chronologically Arranged; With Notes and an Introduction General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: J. C. Mozley Subjects: Preaching Sermons, Medieval Christian biography Religion / Sermons / Christian Rel... more »igion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MEDIAEVAL PREACHERS AND MEDLEVAL PREACHING. VENERABLE BEDE Was born in 672, and died in 735. His sermons are by no means the most interesting part of his works. There are, in the older editions, forty-seven on the course of the Church's year, exclusive of twenty-two for Lent; forty- eight on Saints' days, and above twenty very short discourses, manifestly addressed to country congregations. With the exception of these last, nearly all the sermons take the shape of expositions on the Gospel for the day ; and contain so little that can really be said to belong to Bede, that I have not thought it worth while to make any extracts from them. The short popular discourses were probably taken down by an admirer or disciple of the preacher. This is evident from the ungrammatical character of many of the sentences, the repetition of the same word, the substitution of the noun for the pronoun, and the like; besides the excessive brevity of more than one fragment. It is curious to observe the difference of style between the writings of Bede and those of the Bede of France, S. Gregory of Tours; the latter using Latin that had degenerated ; iJte a mere patois, but was still a living and spoken language ; the former writing it far more clas- 'sicajlyandfcetebj proving -- if proof were needed -- that it was as com...« less