Sermons and Homilies

I.  Bibliographies

II.  Surveys, Handbooks, and Collections

III.  Repertories

IV.  Some Major Preachers and Preaching Traditions

Homilies For Major Feasts and Topics

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V.  Homiliaries

VI.  The Pericope System

VII.  English Translations

VIII.  Exempla

IX.  Preacher’s Manuals

I.  Bibliographies

George Ferzoco and Carolyn Muessig, “Bibliography,” in The Sermon, ed. Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Typologie des sources, 81-83 (Turnhout, 2000), pp. 19-142. WorldCat 

Thomas. N. Hall, “Sermons,” Oxford Bibliographies: Medieval Studies. Especially valuable for its coverage of sermons in the major medieval vernacular languages.

Thomas N. Hall, “A Basic Bibliography of Medieval Sermon Studies,” Medieval Sermon Studies Newsletter 36 (Autumn 1995), 26-42. WorldCat 

“Bibliographie,” in Jean LongèreLa prédication médiévale (Paris, 1983), pp. 247-63. WorldCat 

Pietro Delcorno, “Late Medieval Preaching,” Oxford Bibliographies: Medieval Studies.

Christoph Cluse, “Bibliographischer Einstieg: Prediger und Predigten (12.-15. Jh.),” Lexikon des Mittelalters7/1. WorldCat 

Sermons.net contains a Bibliographie générale.

PredMed: A Research Net about Medieval Preaching around the Mediterranean. Includes Bibliographies on “Christian Preaching in Iberia”; “Muslim and alhamiado sermons”; and “Jewish Preaching in Iberia” as well as on “Iberian Preachers”; “Italian Preachers”; “French Preachers”; Byzantine Preachers”; and “Muslim Preachers.”

Prêcher en chapitre. La prédication en chapitre général dans les ordres religieux médiévaux contains a Bibliographie.

Bibliographie de François Dolbeau

Alexandre Olivar, “Raymond Étaix: In Memoriam,” Miscel·lània litúrgica catalana 14 (2006), 13-19. WorldCat  Includes a “Bibliografia Científica de Raymond Étaix.”

See also KaskeMedieval Christian Literary Imagery, pp. 80-90; Nicole Bériou in Berlioz, Identifier sources, pp. 201-210; Beverly Mayne Kienzle and David L. D’Avray in Mantello and RiggMedieval Latin, pp. 659-69, and the separate bibliographies on The Bible and Its Interpretation in the Middle Ages.

To keep up to date, consult recent issues of the Medieval Sermon Studiesas well as Medioevo Latino under the headings “Liturgica–Forme e Generi di Testo–Homeliaria Liturgica” and “Predicazione” (also available via the Mirabile database).

II.  Surveys, Handbooks, and Collections

Surveys:

Phyllis B. Roberts, “Sermon Studies Scholarship: The Last Thirty Years,” Medieval Sermon Studies 45 (1999), 9-18. WorldCat 

Anne T. Thayer, “Medieval Sermon Studies since The Sermon: A Deepening and Broadening Field,” Medieval Sermon Studies 58.1 (2014), 10-27WorldCat 

Anne T. Thayer, “The Medieval Sermon: Text, Performance and Insight,” in Understanding Medieval Primary Sources, ed. Joel Rosenthal, pp. 43-58. WorldCat 

Carolyn Muessig, “Sermon, Preacher and Society in the Middle Ages,” Journal of Medieval History 28 (2002), 73-91. WorldCat 

Handbooks and Collections:

The Sermon, ed. Beverly Mayne KienzleTypologie des sources, 81-83 (Turnhout, 2000). WorldCat  Covers the major medieval vernacular languages as well as Latin, with a cumulative bibliography for all chapters. See especially Thomas N. Hall, “The Early Medieval Sermon,” pp. 203-69; and Nicole Bériou, “Les sermons latins après 1200,” pp. 363-447.

Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, and Audiences in the Latin West, ed. Anthony Dupont et al. (Leiden, 2018).

Jean LongèreLa prédication médiévale (Paris, 1983). WorldCat .

Hughes Oliphant OldThe Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church (Grand Rapids MI, 1998- ). v. 2. The Patristic Age WorldCat  — v. 3. The Medieval Church. WorldCat 

Johann Baptist SchneyerGeschichte der katholischen Predigt (Freiburg i.B., 1969). WorldCat 

Robert W. Zajkowski, “Sermons,” in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. Classen, pp. 2077-86.

Sermo Doctorum: Compilers, Preachers and Their Audiences in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Maximilian Diesenberger, Yitzhak Hen, and Marianne Pollheimer (Turnhout, 2013).

L. Hödl and R. Hetzler, “Zum Stand der Erforschung der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters (für die Zeit von 1350-1500),” Scriptorium 46 (1992), 121-35. WorldCat 

Predicazione e società nel medioevo: riflessione etica, valori et modelli di comportamento / Preaching and Society in the Middle Ages: Ethics, Values and Social Behaviour. Atti/Proceedings of the XII Medieval Sermon Studies Symposium Padova, 14-18 luglio 2000, ed. Laura Gaffuri and Riccardo Quinto, Centro Studi Antoniani 35 (Padua, 2002). WorldCat 

Predicazione e sistemi giuridici nell’Occidente medievale / Preaching and legal Frameworks in the Middle Ages, Reti Medievali E-Book 32, ed. Laura Gaffuri and Riccardo Quinto (Florence, 2018).

De l’homélie au sermon. Histoire de la prédication médiévale, ed. Jacqueline Hamesse and Xavier Hermand (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1993). WorldCat 

Speculum sermonis: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Medieval Sermon, ed. Georgiana Donavin, Cary J. Nederman, and Richard Utz (Turnhout, 2004)WorldCat 

Constructing the Medieval Sermon, ed. Roger Anderson (Turnhout, 2007).

Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages, ed.Carolyne A. Muessig (Leiden, 2002). WorldCat 

La parole du prédicateur, Ve-XVe siècles, ed. R. M. Dessi and M. Lauwers, Collection d’études médiévales de Nice, 1 (Nice, 1997).

Jean Longère, “Le vocabulaire de la prédication,” in La Lexicographie du latin médiéval et ses rapports avec les recherches actuelles sur la civilisation du moyen-âge (Paris, 1981), pp. 303-20. WorldCat 

Thomas Leslie AmosThe Origin and Nature of the Carolingian Sermon, 2 vols. (PhD. diss. Michigan State University, 1983). WorldCat 

Hervé MartinLe métier de prédicateur en France septentrionale a la fin du Moyen Age, 1350-1520 (Paris, 1988). WorldCat 

Laura Gaffuri, “La prédication en Italie (XIIe-XVe siècle),” in Cultures italiennes, (XIIe-XVe s.), ed. Isabelle Heullant-Donat (Paris, 2000), pp. 193-238.

Prédication et liturgie au Moyen Âge, ed. Nicole Bériou and Franco Morenzoni, Bibliothèque d’histoire culturelle du Moyen Âge 5 (Turnhout, 2008). WorldCat 

M. Lebreton, “Recherches sur les principaux thèmes théologiques traités dans les sermons du XII siècle,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 23 (1956), 5-18.

Louis-Jacques BataillonLa prédication au XIIIe siècle en France et Italie, ed. David D’Avray and Nicole Bériou(Aldershot, 1993).

Louis-Jacques Bataillon, “De la lectio à la praedicatio. Commentaires bibliques et sermons au XIIIème siècle,” Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 70 (1986), 559-74.

Prédication et performance du XIIe au XVIe siècle, ed. Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès and Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu(Paris, 2013). WorldCat 

Nicole Bériou, “La prédication aux derniers siècles du Moyen Age,” Communications 72 (2002), 113-27.

For others search the LC subject headings “Preaching—History—Middle Ages, 600-1500” and “Sermons—Latin–Early Works to 1800.”

Journal

Medieval Sermon Studies (1977- ). WorldCat  Official organ of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society WorldCat 

Websites:

Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages

III.  Repertories

Patrologia Latina indices of sermons and homilies in vol. 221.

Hermann Josef SiebenKirchenväterhomilien zum Neuen Testament: Ein Repertorium der Textausgaben und Übersetzungen, mit einem Anhang der Kirchenväterkommentare, Instrumenta Patristica 22 (Steenbrugge, 1991). WorldCat  Lists patristic homilies by New Testament book and verse, with references to editions and translations.

Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages. The Dissemination, Manipulation and Interpretation of Late-antique Sermons in the Medieval Latin West

Sermons.net: édition électronique d’un corpus de sermons latins médiévaux

Johannes MachielsenClavis Patristica Pseudepigraphorum Medii Aevi, I: Opera Homiletica, 2 vols. IA IB (Turnhout, 1990) II, 941-98. WorldCat . Bibliographical guide to sermons and homilies falsely attributed to a patristic author. Should be used to control attributions in the Patrologia Latina. Includes indices concording references with the PL as well as the Clavis Patrum Latinorum.

Johann Baptist SchneyerRepertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters für die Zeit von 1150-1350, 11 vols., Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters 43/1-11 (Münster i.W. 1969-90). WorldCat  Pts. 1-4 lists sermons alphabetically by author; pts. VI-VII list sermons by institution (VI: councils, universities, monastic; VII: mendicant, miscellaneous collections, and sermons on Scriptures; pts VIII-IX list anonymous sermons by cities where the manuscripts survive. Sermon initia usually are biblical “themes.” 

L. Hödl and W. Koch, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Spätmittelalters 1350 bis 1500 (Münster, 1999). [CD-ROM]. WorldCat  Non-functional with current Windows OS.

For comments on how to use Schneyer’s work, see KaskeMedieval Christian Literary Imagery, p. 81, and BerliozIdentifier sources et citations, pp. 204-5. The following work provides an additional means of access:

Johann Baptist Schneyer, Wegweiser zu lateinischen Predigtreihen des Mittelalters (Munich, 1965). WorldCat  Alphabetical list of biblical ‘themes’ of sermons and initia from the 12th through16th centuries, and an index of authors. See Kaske, Medieval Christian Literary Imagery, p. 81.

Louis-Jacques Bataillon, “Compléments au Repertorium de Schneyer: I.,” Medieval Sermon Studies 44 (2000), 15-36. WorldCat 

Louis-Jacques Bataillon, “Compléments au Repertorium de Schneyer: II,” Medieval Sermon Studies 45 (2001), 11-39.

Louis-Jacques Bataillon, “Sermons rédigés, sermons réportés (XIIIe siècle),” Medioevo e Rinascimento 3 (1989), 69-86.

Siegfried WenzelLatin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England: Orthodox Preaching in the Age of Wyclif (Cambridge, 2005). WorldCat 

Carolyn Muessig, “Audience and Preacher: Ad Status Sermons and Social Classification,” in Preacher, Sermon, and Audience in the Middle Ages, ed. Carolyn Muessig (Leiden, 2002), pp. 255-76. WorldCat 

 
For incipits of sermons, in addition to the indices in the above repertories:

In Principio: Index of Latin Texts (Brepols, 1997). Based on the materials at IRHT and HMML. Incorporates data from Répertoire d’incipit de sermons latins. Antiquité tardive et Moyen Age (Paris, 1987), 240 microfiche reproducing the card-files of the IRHTWorldCat 

Germain MorinSancti Caesarii Arelatensis sermones, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 103-104. WorldCat  The alphabetical inventory includes many falsely attributed sermons.

SchneyerWegweiserincludes a bibliography of lists of initia of scholastic preachers and anonymous scholastic sermons, pp. 547-55.

For others, see BerliozIdentifier sources et citations, pp. 204-7.

A Bibliographical Register of the Sermons & Other Orations Delivered at the Council of Constance (1414-1418)

IV. Some Major Preachers and Preaching Traditions

(For patristic authors see the patrologies listed in the separate bibliography on The Bible and Its Interpretation, which also includes broader bibliographies on some of the patristic and medieval writers below, where the focus is specifically on their sermon or homilies. For later medieval authors see SchneyerRepertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters, and the repertories listed in the separate bibliography on Medieval Latin Literature, especially CALMA: Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi (500-1500).) Fuller lists of medieval preachers can be found in various essays in The Sermon, ed. Kienzle.

Ademar of Chabannes

Editions:

Sermones, Patrologia Latina 141, cols. 111-112 and 115-124. WorldCat 

Raphaël RichterÉdition de 23 sermons du manuscrit autographe d’Adémar de Chabannes, BNF lat. 2469, ff. 1-76 (ca. 1030) (unpubl. thesis, École nationale des chartes, Paris, 2003).

Zénaïde Romaneix, “Édition de sermons d’Adémar de Chabannes et du compte rendu du concile de Limoges (novembre 1031), (BnF lat. 2469, fol. 76-112v) (unpubl. thesis, École des chartes, 2005).

Translations:

Sermons, ed. and trans. Edmond Pognon, in L’an mille. Oeuvres de Liutprand, Raoul Glaber, Adémar de Chabannes, Adalberon [et] Helgaud, Mémoires du passé pour servir au temps présent 6 (Paris, 1947). WorldCat 

Studies:

Pascale Bourgain, “La culture et les procédés littéraires dans les sermons d’Adémar de Chabannes,” in Saint-Martial de Limoges: ambition politique et production culturelle (Xe-XIIIe s.). Actes du colloque, Poitiers et Limoges, 26-28 mai 2005, ed. Claude Andrault-Schmitt (Limoges, 2006), pp. 411-301. WorldCat 

Michael Frassetto, The Art of Forgery: The Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes and the Cult of St. Martial of Limoges,” Comitatus 26.1 (1995), 11-26. WorldCat 

Michael Frassetto, “Resurrection of the Body: Eleventh-Century Evidence from the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes,” The Journal of Religious History 26 (2002), 235-49.

Michael Frassetto, “The Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes and the Origins of Medieval Heresy” (unpublished PhD diss., University of Delaware, 1993).

Daniel Callahan, “The Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes and the Cult of St. Martial of Limoges,” Revue Bénédictine86 (1976), 251-95. WorldCat 

Aelred of Rievaulx

Editions:

Aelredus Rievallensis Opera omnia II: Sermones I-XLVI (Collectio Claraevallensis prima et secunda), ed. G. Raciti, CCCM 2A (Turnhout, 1989). WorldCat 

Aelredus Rievallensis: Opera omnia III: Sermones XLVII-LXXXIV (Collectio Dunelmensis – Collectio Lincolniensis), ed. G. Raciti, CCCM 2B (Turnhout, 2001). WorldCat 

Aelredus Rievallensis Opera omnia V: Homeliae de oneribus propheticis Isaiae, ed. G. Raciti, CCCM 2D (Turnhout, 2005). WorldCat 

Translations:

Aelred de Rievaulx, Sermons. La collection de Reading (sermons 85-182), Corpus Christianorum in Translation 20, ed. G. Raciti, G. de Briey, and X. Morales (Turnhout, 2015).

A. Sulavik, “Aelred of Rievaulx: Sermons on the Feast of St. Mary,” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 32 (1997), 37-125. WorldCat 

Aelred of Rievaulx, The Liturgical Sermons: The First Clairvaux Collection, Advent–All Saints, trans. Theodore Berkeley, Cistercian Fathers 58 (Collegeville MN 2001). WorldCat  Ebook-WorldCat 

Aelred of Rievaulx, The Liturgical Sermons: The Second Clairvaux Collection, Sermons 29-46, Christmas–All Saints, trans. M. A. Mayeski, Cistercian Fathers 77 (Collegeville MN, 2016). WorldCat 

Aelred of RievaulxThe Liturgical Sermons: The Durham and Lincoln Collections, Sermons 47-84, trans. Kathryn Krug et al., Cistercian Fathers 80 (Collegeville MN, 2019).

Aelred of RievaulxHomilies on the Prophetic Burdens of Isaiah, trans. Lewis White, Cistercian Fathers 83 (Collegeville MN, 2018).

Ælred de Rievaulx, Sermons pour l’année, 3 vols., trans. Gatanne De Briey, Pain de Cîteaux 11-12, 18 (Oka, Quebec, 1997). WorldCat 

Studies:

Dominico Pezzini, “The Sermons of Aelred of Rievaulx,” in A Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx (1110–1167), ed. Marsha Dutton (Leiden, 2017), pp. 71-97. WorldCat  Ebook-WorldCat 

G. Raciti, “Deux collections de sermons de saint Aelred—une centaine d’inédits—découvertes dans les fonds de Cluny et de Clairvaux,” Collectanea Ciscterciensia 45 (1983), 165-84.

B. P. McGuire, “A Changed Face of Aelred? a New Attribution of Sermons to the Abbot of Rievaulx,” The Downside Review, 103 (1985), 147-50.

Anthony of Padua

Editions:

S. Antonii Patavini Sermones dominicales et festivi, 3 vols., ed. Beniamino Costa, Leonardo Frasson, and Giovanni Luisetto (Padua, 1979). WorldCat 

St. Antoine de Padoue – Sermons des dimanches et des fêtes: 5. Index biblique, analytique, bestiaire et lexiques, ed. Valentin Strappazzon (Paris, 2014).

Translations:

Anthony of Padua, Sermones for the Easter Cycle, ed. Charles McCarron and George Marcil (Bonaventure NY, 1994).

Sant’Antonio di Padova. I Sermoni, trans. Giordano Tollardo, 3rd ed. (Padua, 2002). WorldCat  Includes an analytical index and an index of biblical passages.

Saint Anthony of Padua, Sermons for Sundays and Festivals, 4 vols., trans. Paul Spilsbury (Padua, 2007-10).

The Sermons of Saint Antony of Padua (trans. Spilsbury)

Sermoni di sant’Antonio

Studies:

Paul Spilsbury, “The Concordance of Scripture: The Homiletic and Exegetical Methods of St Antony of Padua” (unpubl. DPhil thesis, University of Bristol, 1999).

Gilbert Dahan, “L’exégèse d’Antoine de Padoue et les maîtres de l’école biblique-morale (fin XIIe-début XIIIe début XIIIe siècle),” Euphrosyne n.s. 24 (1996), 341-73.

Augustine

Bibliographies:

Hubertus R. DrobnerAugustinus von Hippo: Sermones ad Populum: Überlieferung und Bestand Bibliographie – Indices (Leiden, 2000). WorldCat  With a supplement: Sermones ad populum: Überlieferung und Bestand, Bibliographie, Indices: Supplement 2000-2010 (Frankfurt am Main 2010). WorldCat Inventory of Augustine’s sermons by published series (from the Maurist edition reprinted by Migne to the Sermones Dolbeau) as well as by content (biblical book and liturgical feast).  Part I inventories the sermons on scripture, for the liturgical year, and on themes. A “Themenindex” (pp. 41-51) references sermons on particular biblical passages and on names and things. Part II is a bibliography of secondary literature (including a section on pseudo-Augustinian sermons), with an index for all the sermons referencing editions, translations, and scholarship; a thematic index to the scholarship; and an index of persons and authors.

Eric Rebillard, “Augustine,” Oxford Bibliographies.

Editions:

The bibliography of editions of Augustine’s sermons is too extensive to be itemized here; in addition to Gryson, Répertoire (AU s) see the works cited below. A new collective edition of the Sermones ad populum is appearing in CCSL: Sancti Aurelii Augustini Sermones in Matthaeum I, ed. P.-P Verbracken et al., CCSL 41 Aa (Turnhout, 2008) WorldCat Sancti Aurelii Augustini Sermones in Epistolas Apostolicas I, ed. Gert Partoens, CCSL 41Ba (Turnhout, 2008) WorldCat Sancti Aurelii Augustini Sermones in Epistolas Apostolicas II, ed. Shari Boodts, CCSL 41Bb (Turnhout, 2016). WorldCat 

Translations:

The Works of Saint Augustine A Translation for the 21st Century (1990- ). WorldCat Volumes with translations of homilies and sermons: III/14, Homilies on the First Epistle of John; III/12, Homilies on the Gospel of John (1-40); III/1-11, Sermons. These and other volumes have elaborate subject indices in Compilation of Indexes to The Works of Saint Augustine A Translation for the 21st Century, comp. Steven Cordiviola (Hyde Park, 2016). WorldCat 

Augustinus von Hippo, trans. Hubertus R. Drobner, Patrologia: Beiträge zum Studium der Kirchenväter (2000- ): 7: Predigten zum Buch Genesis (Sermones 1-5) (2000)WorldCat ; 9: Predigten zu Kirch- und Bischofsweihe (Sermones 336-340/A) (2003) WorldCat ; 10: Predigten zu den Büchern Exodus, Könige und Job (Sermones 6-12) (2003) WorldCat ; 11: Predigten zum Weihnachtsfest (Sermones 184-196) (2003) WorldCat ; 13: Predigten zum Buch der Sprüche und Jesus Sirach (Sermones 35-41) (2004) WorldCat ; 16: Predigten zum österlichen Triduum (Sermones 218-229/D) (2006) WorldCat ; 19: Predigten zum Markusevangelium (Sermones 94/A-97) (2007) WorldCat ; 22: Predigten zu Neujahr und Epiphanie (Sermones 196/A-204/A) (2012) WorldCat ; 26: Predigten zur Apostelgeschichte (Sermones 148-150) (2012) WorldCat ; 29: Predigten zu den Alttestamentlichen Propheten (Sermone 42-50) (2013). WorldCat 

Augustine, Sermons on the New Testament (NPNF series)

Augustine, Homilies on the First Epistle of John (NPNF series)

Studies:

Eric Rebillard, “Sermones,” in Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia (Cambridge, 1999). WorldCat 

Shari Boodts and Anthony Dupont, “Augustine of Hippo,” in Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, and Audiences in the Latin West, ed. Anthony Dupont et al., A New History of the Sermon 6 (Leiden, 2018), pp. 177-97.

Pierre-Patrick VerbrakenÉtudes critiques sur les sermons authentiques de saint Augustin, Instrumenta Patristica 12 (Steenbrugge, 1976). WorldCat 

Ministerium Sermonis: Philological, Historical, and Theological Studies on Augustine’s Sermones ad Populum, ed. Gert Partoens, Anthony Dupont, and Mathijs Lamberigts, Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 53 (Turnhout, 2009). WorldCat 

Tractatio Scripturarum: Philological, Exegetical, Rhetorical and Theological Studies on Augustine’s Sermons, ed. Anthony Dupont, Gert Partoens, and Mathijs Lamberigts, Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 65 (Turnhout, 2012). WorldCat 

Hubertus R. Drobner, “The Transmission of Augustine’s Sermons. A Critical Assessment,” in Tractatio Scripturarum, ed. Dupont et al., pp. 97-116. WorldCat 

Hubertus R. Drobner, “The Chronology of St. Augustine’s Sermons,” Augustinian Studies 31 (2000), 211–18. WorldCat 

Hubertus R. Drobner, “The Chronology of St. Augustine’s Sermones ad populum II: Sermons 5 to 8,” Augustinian Studies 34 (2003), 49-66.

Hubertus R. Drobner, “The Chronology of Augustine’s Sermones ad populum III: On Christmas Day,” Augustinian Studies 35 (2004), 43-53.

S. Dagemark, “Augustine’s Sermons: Circulation and Authenticity Evidenced by Examples of Preaching and Response,” in Comunicazione e recezione del document Cristiano in epoca tardoantica. XXXII Incontro di studiosi dell’antichità cristiana, Roma, 8-10 maggio 2003, Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 90 (Rome, 2004), pp. 693-761. WorldCat 

Henry Chadwick, “The New Sermons of St. Augustine,” Journal of Theological Studies 47 (1996), 69–91. WorldCat 

Clemens Weidmann, “The Corpus of Augustinian Sermons Recently Discovered at Erfurt: With a New Edition of Sermo 207,” in Ministerium Sermonis, ed. Partoens et al., pp. 11-38. WorldCat 

Die Mainzer Augustinus-Predigten: Studien zu einem Jahrhundertfund, ed. Gerhard May and Geesche Hönscheid(Mainz, 2003). WorldCat 

Hubertus R. DrobnerNeu identifizierte Textzeugen zu den Predigten Augustins, Patrologia: Beiträge zum Studium der Kirchenväter 28 (Bern, 2013).  WorldCat 

François DolbeauAugustin et la prédiction en Afrique. Recherches sur divers sermons authentiques, apocryphes ou anonymes, Collections des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 179 (Paris, 2005). WorldCat 

Augustin prédicateur (395-411). Actes du Colloque International de Chantilly, 5-7 septembre 1996, ed. Goulven Madec, Collection des Études augustiniennes, Série Antiquité 159 (Paris, 1998). WorldCat 

Maurice PontetL’Exégèse de s. Augustin prédicateur (Paris, 1945). WorldCat 

Pseudo-Augustine (Sermones ad fratres in eremo)

Patrologia Latina 40, cols. 1233–1358. WorldCat 

MachielsenClavis Patristica Pseudepigraphorum Medii Aevi IA, nos. 1127-1203. WorldCat 

Eric Leland Saak, “The Sermones ad fratres in eremo,” in Creating Augustine: Interpreting Augustine and Augustinianism in the Later Middle Ages (Oxford, 2012), ch. 3. WorldCat 

J. P. Bonnès, “Un des plus grands prédicateurs du xiie siècle: Geoffroy du Loroux dit Geoffroy Babion,” Revue Bénédictine 56 (1945-46), 174-215.WorldCat 

A. Treloar, “The Augustinian ‘Sermones ad fratres in eremo commorantes’,” Prudentia 3.1 (1971), 39-50. WorldCat 

Basil the Great

Rufini Aquileiensis homiliarium Basili Magni interpretatio latina, ed. Carlo Lo Cicero, CCSL 20A (Turnhout, 2008). See pp. IX-X, n. 2 for extensive bibliography. WorldCat 

Carlo Lo CiceroTradurre i Greci nell IV secolo: Rufino di Aquileia e le Omelie di Basilio, Studi e Testi Tardoantichi 9 (Rome, 2008). WorldCat 

Claudio Moreschini, “La traduzione di Rufino dalle Omelie di Basilio. Motivi e scopi di una scelta”, in La traduzione dei testi religiosi. Atti del convegno tenuto a Trento il 10-11 febbraio 1993, ed. Claudio Moreschini and Giovanni Menestrina, Religione e cultura 6 (Brescia, 1994), pp. 127-47.

Heinrich Marti, “Vom Schicksal des Basileios im Westen: Beobachtungen zu Rufins Predigt-Übersetzungen,” Museum Helveticum 57 (2000), 166-72. 

Michel Huglo, “Les anciennes versions latines des homélies de saint Basile”, Revue Bénédictine 64 (1954), 129-32.

Andrea Salvini, “Sulla tecnica di traduzione dal greco in latino nelle Homiliae Morales di Basilio-Rufino”, Studi Classici e Orientali 46 (1998), 845-89.

Bede

Homiliae euangelii, ed. D. Hurst, CCSL 122 (Turnhout, 1955), WorldCat 

Bede the Venerable: Homilies on the Gospels, trans. Lawrence Martin, 2 vols., Cistercian Studies Series 110 and 111 (Kalamazoo, 1991). WorldCat 

Lawrence Martin, “Bede and Preaching,” in The Cambridge Companion to Bede, ed. Scott DeGregorio (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 156-69. WorldCat 

A. G. P. Van der Walt, “The Homiliary of the Venerable Bede and Early Medieval Preaching” (unpubl. PhD thesis, University of London, 1980).

Verity L. Allan, “Theological Works of the Venerable Bede and their Literary and Manuscript Presentation, with Special Reference to the Gospel Homilies” (M.L. Thesis, St Cross College, Oxford).

Bernard of Clairvaux

Bibliographies:

Brian Patrick McGuire,”Bernard of Clairvaux,” Oxford Bibliographies: Medieval Studies.

Henri Rochais and Eugène ManningBibliographie générale de l’ordre cistercien 1/2: Saint Bernard, La documentation cistercienne 21, fasc. h.s. 1; 2-6; 7-19 (Rocherfort, 1979-83).

Guido HendrixConspectus bibliographicus sancti Bernardi ultimi patrum 1989-1993, Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale, Supplements 2, 2nd ed. (Leuven, 1995).

Eugène Manning, Bibliographie bernardine (1957-1970), La documentation cistercienne 6 (Rochefort, 1972).

Jean de la Croix BoutonBibliographie bernardine 1891-1957, Commission d’histoire de l’ordre de Cîteaux 5 (Paris, 1958).

Leopold JanauschekBibliographia Bernardina, Xenia Bernardina 4 (Vienna, 1891).

Editions:

Sancti Bernardi Opera, 8 vols., ed. Jean Leclercq and Henri Rochais (Rome, 1957–77). WorldCat 

Sermons sur le Cantique, 5 vols., ed. Raffaele Fassetta and Paul Verdeyen (Paris, 1996–2007). WorldCat 

Translations:

Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs, 4 vols., trans. Kilian Walsh and Irene Edmonds, Cistercian Fathers Series 4, 7, 31, 40 (Kalamazoo MI, 1976-80). WorldCat 

Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season, trans. Irene Edmonds, Wendy Mary Beckett, and Conrad Greenia, Cistercian Fathers Series 51 (Kalamazoo MI, 2007). WorldCat 

Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season, trans. John Leinenweber and Mark Scott, Cistercian Fathers Series 52 (Kalamazoo MI, 2013). WorldCat 

Sermons for the Summer Season: Liturgical Sermons from Rogationtide and Pentecost, trans. Beverly Mayne Kienzleand James Jarzembowski, Cistercian Fathers Series 53 (Kalamazoo MI, 1991). WorldCat 

Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for the Autumn Season, trans. Irene Edmonds, Cistercian Fathers Series 54 (Kalamazoo MI, 2016). WorldCat 

Magnificat: Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary, trans. Marie-Bernard Saïd, Cistercian Fathers Series 8 (Kalamazoo MI, 1979). WorldCat 

Bernard de Clairvaux: Sermons divers, ed. Françoise Callerot and Pierre-Yves Émery (Paris, 2006). WorldCat 

Sermons on Conversion, trans. Marie-Bernard Saïd, Cistercian Fathers Series 25 (Kalamazoo MI, 1981). WorldCat 

Studies:

A Companion to Bernard of Clairvaux, ed. Brian Patrick McGuire, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 25 (Leiden 2011). WorldCat 

Peter DinzelbacherBernhard von Clairvaux: Leben und Werk des berühmten Zisterziensers (Darmstadt, 1998).

Bernhard von Clairvaux: Rezeption und Wirkung im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit, ed. Kaspar Elm, Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien 6 (Wiesbaden, 1994).

Ferrucio GastaldelliStudi su San Bernardo e Goffredo di Auxerre, Millennio Medievale Reprints 3 (Florence, 2001). See the section “‘Optimus Praedicator’. L’opera oratoria di San Bernardino,” pp. 129-211.

Wim Verbaal, “Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermons for the Liturgical Year,” in The Appearances of Medieval Rituals: The Play of Construction and Modification, ed. Nils Holger Petersen et al., Disputatio 3 (Turnhout, 2004), pp. 49-66. WorldCat 

H.-M. RochaisEnquête sur les sermons divers et les sentences de saint Bernard, Analecta Sacri Ordinis Ciserciensis 18/3-4 (Rome, 1962). WorldCat 

Jean LeclercqRecuel d’études sur saint Bernard et ses écrits, 5 vols. (Rome, 1962-92). WorldCat 

Bonaventure

Editions:

Sancti Bonaventurae Sermones Dominicales, ed. J.-G. Bougerol, Bibliotheca Franciscana Medii Aevi 27 (Grottaferrata, 1977). WorldCat 

Saint Bonaventure Sermons de diversis, 2 vols., ed. J.-G. Bougerol (Paris, 1993). WorldCat 

Saint Bonaventure Sermons de Tempore. Reportation du manuscrit Milano Ambrosienne A 11 sup., ed. J.-G. Bougerol(Paris, 1990). WorldCat 

Translations:

The Sunday Sermons of St. Bonaventure, trans. Timothy J. Johnson, Works of St. Bonaventure 12 (St. Bonaventure NY, 2008). WorldCat 

Studies:

Timothy J. Johnson, “Bonaventure as Preacher,” in A Companion to Bonaventure, ed. Jay Hammond, Wayne Hellmann, and Jared Goff, Brill’s Companions to the Middle Ages 48 (Leiden, 2014), pp. 421-32. WorldCat 

John F. Quinn, “Chronology of St. Bonaventure’s Sermons,” Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 67 (1974), 145-84. WorldCat 

Bruno of Segni

Homiliae, Patrologia Latina 165, cols. 747-864. WorldCat  Most of these are excerpts from Bruno’s gospel commentaries.

Réginald GrégoireBruno de Segniexégète médiéval et théologien monastique (Spoleto, 1965), pp. 83-95. WorldCat 

Cappadocian Preachers

See also Basil the Great.

J. BernardiLa prédication des pères Cappadociens. Le prédicateur et son auditoire (Paris, 1968). WorldCat 

Fr. Maximos Constas, “The Cappadocian Fathers (A Bibliography).”

Caesarius of Arles

Bibliographies:

W. E. Klingshim, “Caesarius: Studies.”

Editions:

Germain MorinSancti Caesarii Arelatensis sermones, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 103-104 (Turnhout, 1953). WorldCat  The alphabetical inventory includes many falsely attributed sermons. The extensive discussion of manuscripts catalogues many non-Caesarian homilies that circulated with the homilies of Caesarius.

Translations:

Caesarius of Arles: Sermons, 3 vols., trans. Sister Mary Magdeleine Mueller, The Fathers of the Church 31, 47, 66 (Washington, D.C., 1956-73). WorldCat 

Sermons au peuple. Césaire d’Arles, ed. and trans. Marie-José Delage, Sources chrétiennes 175 (Paris, 1971- ). WorldCat 

Sermons sur l’écriture. Césaire d’Arles, trans. Joël Courreau, Sources chrétiennes 447 (Paris, 2000). WorldCat 

Studies:

Nicolas De Maeyer and Gert Partoens, “Preaching in Sixth-Century Arles. The Sermons of Bishop Caesarius,” in Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, and Audiences in the Latin West, ed. Anthony Dupont et al., A New History of the Sermon 6 (Leiden, 2018), pp. 198-231.

Lisa Kaaren Bailey, “Scripture in the Sermons of Caesarius of Arles,” Early Medieval Europe 26 (2018), 42-60. Part of a themed special issue, “The World of Caesarius of Arles.”

Lisa Bailey, “These are Not Men: Sex and Drink in the Sermons of Caesarius of Arles,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 15 (2007), 23-43.

Igor Filippov, “Legal Frameworks in the Sermons of Caesarius of Arles,” Medieval Sermon Studies 58 (2014), 65-83,

A. M. Fagnoni, “Caesarius Arelatensis ep.” In La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo= Mediaeval Latin texts and their transmission: Te.Tra.4. (Florence, 2012), pp.147-168. WorldCat 

William E. KlingshirnCaesarius of Arles: The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul (Cambridge, 1994).

Cistercian Preachers

See also the separate entries for Aelred of Rievaulx, Bernard of Clairvaux, Guerric of Igny, and Isaac of Stella.

Dictionnaire des auteurs cisterciens, ed. E. Brouette, A. Dimier, and E. Manning (Rochefort, 1975-79). WorldCat 

Beverly Mayne Kienzle, “Preaching,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Cistercian Order, ed. Mette Birkedal Bruun (Cambridge, 2013), pp. 245-57, with a bibliography of “Selected Modern Editions of Cistercian Authors and Translations of Works Mentioned.” WorldCat 

Chrysogonus Waddell, “The Liturgical Dimension of Twelfth-Century Cistercian Preaching,” in Medieval Monastic Preaching, ed. Carolyne Muessig (Leiden, 1998), pp. 335-49. WorldCat 

Réginald Grégoire, “L’homéliaire cistercien du manuscrit 114 (82) de Dijon,” Cîteaux 28 (1977), 133-207. WorldCat 

Biographia Cisterciencis: Cistercian Bibliography Online.

Chromatius of Aquileia

Bibliography:

Giuseppe Cuscito, “Cromazio di Aquileia et l’età sua (388-408). Bilancio bibliografico-critico dopo l’edizione dei Sermones e dei Tractatus in Mathaeum,” Aquileia nostra 50 (Aquileia, 1979), pp. 497-572. WorldCat 

Editions:

Chromatius Aquileiensis, Opera, ed. Raymond Étaix and Jacques Lemarié, CCSL 9A and Suppl. (Turnhout, 1974). WorldCat 

Chromace d’Aquilée, Sermons, ed. and trans. Joseph Lemarié and Henri Tardif, Sources chrétiennes 154 (Paris, 1969). WorldCat 

Jacques Lemarié, “Homélies inédites de S. Chromace d’Aquilée.” Revue Bénédictine 73 (1963), 240-43.WorldCat 

Raymond Étaix, “Nouvelle edition des sermons XXI–XXII de saint Chromace d’Aquilée,” Revue Bénedictine 92 (1982), 105-10. WorldCat 

Translations:

San Cromazio di Aquilea. I sermoni, trans. Gabriele Banterle, Scrittori dell’area Santambrosiana. Complementi dell’Opera omnia di Sant’Ambrogio (Rome, 1989). WorldCat 

Studies:

Robert MacEachnie, “A History of Heresy Past: The Sermons of Chromatius of Aquileia, 388-407.” Church History83 (2014), 273-96. WorldCat 

Robert MacEachnie, “Zeno, Chromatius and Gaudentius: Italian Preachers amid Transition.” In Preaching in the Latin Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, Audiences (Leiden, 2016), pp. 454-76.

Chromatius of Aquileia and His Age, ed. Pier Franco Beatrice and Alessio Persic, Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 57 (Steenbrugge, 2011). WorldCat 

Columbanus

Instructiones, ed. G. S. M. Walker, in Sancti Columbani Opera, Scriptures Latini Hiberniae 2 (Dublin, 1970). WorldCat  Available online at CELT.

Claire Stancliffe, “The Thirteen Sermons Attributed to Columbanus and the Question of Their Authorship,” in Columbanus: Studies on the Latin Writings, ed. Michael Lapidge, Studies in Celtic History (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1997), pp. 93-202. WorldCat 

Katja Ritari, Pilgrimage to Heaven: Eschatology and Monastic Spirituality in Early Medieval Ireland, Studia Traditionis Theologiae 23 (Turnhout, 2016), pp. 47-90.

Ruth Murphy, “Bibliography of Columbanus.”

Dominican Preachers

See also the separate entries on Iohann HeroltThomas AquinasJacobus de Voragine, and William Perauldus.

Thomas Kaeppeli and Emilio PanellaScriptores ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, 4 vols. (Rome, 1970-93). WorldCat 

Eliana CorbariVernacular Theology: Dominican Sermons and Audience in Late Medieval Italy, Trends in Medieval Philology 22 (Berlin, 2013). WorldCat 

Christ among the Medieval Dominicans. Representations of Christ in the Texts and Images of the Order of Preachers, ed. Kent Emery Jr. and Joseph Wawrikow (Notre Dame IN, 1998).

Pseudo-Eusebius “Gallicanus”

Eusebius “Gallicanus” Collectio homiliarum, ed. Fr. Glorie, CCSL 101, 101A and 101B (Turnhout, 1970). WorldCat 

Lisa Kaaren BaileyChristianity’s Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul (Notre Dame IN, 2010). WorldCat 

Florentine Preachers

Daniel R. LesnickPreaching in Medieval Florence: The Social World of Franciscan and Dominican Spirituality(Athens GA, 1989). WorldCat 

Aléssio Alonso Alves, “Sermons, Preaching, and Liturgy: Practices, Research Methods, and the Case of Giordano da Pisa,” Medieval Sermon Studies 62 (2018), 3-16.

Peter HowardBeyond the Written Word: Preaching and Theology in the Florence of Archbishop Antoninus 1427–1459, Quaderni di “Rinascimento” 28 (Florence, 1995).

Franciscan Preachers

Major Studies concerning Franciscan and non-Franciscan Preaching during the Medieval and Early Modern Period

Timothy J. JohnsonFranciscans and Preaching: Every Miracle from the Beginning of the World Came about through Words, The Medieval Franciscans 7 (Leiden, 2012). WorldCat 

D. L. D’AvrayThe Preaching of the Friars: Sermons Diffused from Paris before1300 (Oxford, 1985)WorldCat 

J.-G. Bougerol, “Sermons inédits de maîtres franciscains du XIIIe siècle,” Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 81 (1988), 17-49. WorldCat 

J. O’Malley, “Preaching before Trento: The Franciscan Contribution,” in I frati minori fra ’400 e ’500, Atti del XII Convegno della società Internazionale di Studi francescani, Assise, 18-20 oct. 1984 (Assise, 1986), pp. 27-50.

La predicazione dei frati dalla metà del ‘200 alla fine del ‘300. Atti del XXII Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 13-15 ottobre 1994 (Spoleto, 1995). WorldCat 

William Hopkins Campbell, “Franciscan Preaching in Thirteenth-Century England: Sources, Problems, Possibilities” (unpubl. PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2012).

Bert Roest, “Female Preaching in the Late Medieval Franciscan Tradition,” Franciscan Studies 62 (2004), 119-54.

Andrew ReevesReligious Education in Thirteenth-Century England: The Creed and Articles of Faith (Leiden, 2015), pp. 89-129.

Gregory the Great

Editions:

Gregorii Magni Homiliae in Hiezechielem, ed. M. Adriaen, CCSL 142 (Turnhout, 1971). WorldCat 

Gregorii Magni Homiliae in Euangelia, ed. Raymond Étaix, CCSL 141 (Turnhout, 1999). WorldCat 

Manuscripts:

Raymond Étaix, “Répertoire des manuscrits des homélies sur l’Evangile de saint Grégoire le Grand,” Sacris Erudiri 36 (1996), 107-45.

Raymond Étaix, “Note sur la tradition manuscrite des «Homélies sur l’Evangile» de saint Grégoire le Grand,” in Grégoire le Grand. Actes du colloque international du CNRS, ed. Jacques Fontaine et al. (Paris, 1986), pp. 551-59. WorldCat 

Thomas N. Hall, “The Early English Manuscripts of Gregory the Great’s ‘Homilies on the Gospel’ and ‘Homilies on Ezechiel’: A Preliminary Survey,” in Rome and the North. The Early Reception of Gregory the Great in Germanic Europe, ed. Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., Kees Dekker, and David F. Johnson (Paris, 2001), pp. 115-36. WorldCat 

Translations:

The Homilies of St. Gregory the Great on the Book of the Prophet Ezechiel, trans. Theodosia Gray (Etna CA, 1990). WorldCat 

Gregory the Great. Forty Gospel Homilies, trans. David Hurst (Kalamazoo MI, 1990). WorldCat 

Studies:

J.-P. Bouhot, “Les homélies de Saint Grégoire le Grand: Histoire des textes et chronologie,” Revue Bénédictine 117 (2007), 211-60WorldCat 

A. DeLeeux, “Gregory the Great’s ‘Homilies on the Gospels’ in the Early Middle Ages,” Studi medievali, 3rd ser. 26 (1985), 855-69. WorldCat 

Guerric of Igny

Bibliography:

Guerric von Igny/Bibliographie, Bibliographia Cisterciensis. Cistercian Bibliography Online

Editions:

Guerric d’Igny: Sermons, 2 vols., ed. John Morson and Hilary Costello, trans. P. Deseille, Sources chrétiennes 166, 202 (Paris, 1970-73). WorldCat 

Simone KivenConcordance des sermons du Bienheureux Guerric, La documentation cistercienne 14 (Rochefort, 1975). WorldCat 

Translations:

The Christmas Sermons of Bl. Guerric of Igny, trans Sr. Rosa of Lima (Trappist KY, 1959). WorldCat 

Guerric of Igny, Liturgical Sermons, 2 vols., trans. by Monks at Mount St Bernard Abbey, Cistercian Fathers Series 8 and 32 (Shannon, Ireland, 1971). WorldCat 

Studies:

John MorsonChrist the Way: The Christology of Guerric of Igny , Cistercian Publications (Kalamazoo MI, 1978).

Wolfgang Buchmüller, “Introduction to Guerric of Igny: Christ as the Form of Life,” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 48 (2013): 469-77, 517.

John Morson and H. Costello, “Who Was Guerric of Igny?,” The Downside Review 84 (1966), 57-75. 

Annie Noblesse-RocherL’expérience de Dieu dans les sermons de Guerric, abbé d´Igny (XIIe siècle), Patrimoines christianisme (Paris, 2005).

Jean Leclercq, “La collection des sermons de Guerric d’Igny,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 24 (1957), 15-26. 

Basil Pennington, “Guerric of Igny and his Sermons for the Feast of the Assumption,” Studia Monastica 12 (1970), 87-95.

Basil Pennington, “Together unto God, Contemplative Community in the Sermons of Guerric of Igny, ” Studia Monastica 14 (1974), 75-89.

Thomas Merton, “The Christmas Sermons of Blessed Guerric,” Collectanea ordinis Cisterciensium reformatorum 17 (1955), 229-44.

Thomas Merton, “Guerric of Igny´s Easter Sermons,” Cistercian Studies 7 (1972), 85-95.

Haymo of Auxerre

Homiliae de tempore, Patrologia Latina 118, cols. 11–746; Homiliae aliquot de sanctis, Patrologia Latina 118, cols. 747-804; Homiliae in aliquot epistolas Pauli, Patrologia Latina 118, cols. 803-816. WorldCat 

Henri BarréLes Homiliaires carolingiens de l’école d’Auxerre, Studi e Testi 225 (Rome, 1962). WorldCat 

Dominique Iogna-Prat, “L’oeuvre d’Haymon d Auxerre. État de la question,” in L’École carolingienne d’Auxerre de Murethach à Rémi, 830-908, ed. Dominique Iogna-Prat, Colette Jeudy, and Guy Lobrichon (Paris, 1991), pp. 157-179. WorldCat 

Ricardo Quadri, “L’omelario di Eirico di Auxerre,” in L’École carolingienne d’Auxerre, ed. Iogna-Prat et al., pp. 275-95. WorldCat 

Raymond Étaix, “Les homéliaires carolingiens de l’école d’Auxerre,” in L’École carolingienne d’Auxerre, ed. Iogna-Prat et al., pp. 243-51. WorldCat 

Heiric of Auxerre

Heirici Autissiodorensis Homiliae per circulum anni, ed. R. Quadri, 3 vols. CCCM 116 (Turnhout, 1992). WorldCat 

See also the studies by Barré and Étaix cited under Haymo of Auxerre.

Hildegard of Bingen

Beverly Mayne KienzleHildegard of Bingen and Her Gospel Homilies: Speaking New Mysteries, Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 12 (Turnhout, 2009). WorldCat 

Hrabanus Maurus

Homiliae de festis praecipuis, Patrologia Latina 110, cols. 9-134; Homiliae in Evangelia et epistolas, Patrologia Latina 110, cols. 135-467. WorldCat 

Christoph Galle, “Raban Maur’s Sermon Collections and their Sources: A Study of the Manuscripts from the Monastery in Fulda, Medieval Sermon Studies 62 (2018), 61-81.

Raymond Étaix, “Le receuil des sermons composé par Raban Maur pour Haistulfe de Mayence,” Revue des études augustiniennes 32 (1986), 124-37. WorldCat

Raymond Étaix, “L’homéliaire composé par Raban Maur pour l’empereur Lothaire,” Recherches augustiniennes 19 (1984), 211-40. WorldCat 

Innocent III

Sermones de tempore, Patrologia Latina 217, cols. 313-450; Sermones de sanctis, Patrologia Latina 217, cols. 451-594; Sermones communes, Patrologia Latina 217, cols. 595-648; Sermones de diversis, Patrologia Latina 217, cols. 649-688. WorldCat 

Innocenzo III, Sermoni (Sermones), ed. and trans Stanislao Fioramonti, Monumenta Studia Instrumenta Liturgica 44 (Vatican City, 2006). WorldCat 

Irish Preachers

Irish Preaching 700-1700, ed. Alan J. Fletcher and Raymond Gillespie (Dublin, 2001). WorldCat 

Martin McNamara, “Irish Homilies A.D. 600 – 1100,” in Via Crucis: Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas in Memory of J. E. Cross, ed. Thomas N. Hall and Charles D. Wright (Morgantown WVa, 2002), pp. 235–84. WorldCat 

Alan J. FletcherLate Medieval Popular Preaching in Britain and Ireland: Texts, Studies, and Interpretations(Turnhout, 2009).

Isaac of Stella

Patrologia Latina 194, cols. 1689-1876. WorldCat 

Isaak von Stella, Sermones – Predigten, trans. W. G. Buchmüller and B. Kohout-Berghammer, Fontes Christiani 51/1-3 (Turnhout, 2012-13). WorldCat 

H. McCafferyIsaac of Stella: Sermons on the Christian Year, Cistercian Fathers 11 (Kalamazoo MI, 1979). WorldCat 

A. Hoste et al., Isaac de l’Étoile, Sermons, 3 vols. Sources chrétiennes 130, 207, 339 (Paris, 1967-87). WorldCat 

Domenico PezziniIsacco della StellaI Sermoni, Volume primo: Dalla Settuagesima alla Pentecoste (Milan, 2006). WorldCat 

Domenico PezziniIsacco della Stella, I Sermoni, Volume secondo: Mariale – Santorale – Tempo ordinario (Milan, 2007). WorldCat 

Jacobus de Voragine

Thesaurus des sermons de Jacques de Voragine

Iacobi de Vitriaco Sermones vulgares vel ad status. Prologus, I-XXXVI, ed. J. Longère, CCCM 255 (Turnhout, 2013). WorldCat 

Iacopo da Varazze, Sermones Quadragesimales, ed. Giovanni Paolo Maggioni, Edizione nazionale dei testi mediolatini 13, serie I, 8 (Florence, 2005). WorldCat 

Giovanni Paolo Maggioni, “Studio preliminare sulle raccolte di sermoni De sanctis di Iacopo da Varazze. Problemi di autenticità delle macrovarianti,” Filologia mediolatina, 12 (2005), 227-47. WorldCat 

Stefania Bertini GuidettiI «Sermones» di Iacopo da Varazze. Il potere delle immagini nel Duecento, Millennio Medievale, Studi 2 (Florence, 1998). WorldCat 

Jerome

Hieronymus: Homiliae, ed. G. Morin, B. Capelle, and J. Fraipont, CCSL 78 (Turnholt, 1958). WorldCat 

The Homilies of Saint Jerome1-59, Homilies on the Psalms, trans. M. L. Ewald, Fathers of the Church 48 (Washington, D.C., 1964). WorldCat 

The Homilies of Saint Jerome60-96, trans. M. L. Ewald, Fathers of the Church 57 (Washington, D.C., 1966). WorldCat 

Johann Herolt

Ian D. K. SigginsA Harvest of Medieval Preaching: The Sermon Books of Johann Herolt, OP (Discipulus) (2009). WorldCat 

Leo the Great

Editions and Translations:

Leo MagnusSermones, ed. A. ChavasseSancti Leonis Magni Romani Pontificis tractatus septem et nonagintaCCSL138 and 138a (Turnhout 1973). WorldCat 

Sermons de Léon le Grand, trans. René Dolle, 4 vols., 2nd ed., Sources chrétiennes 22bis, 49bis, 74bis, 200 (Paris, 1961-2003). WorldCat 

Sermoni. Leone Magno, 4 vols., ed. and trans. M. Naldini et al., Biblioteca patristica 30, 31, 33, 38 (Fiesole, 1997-2001). WorldCat 

Studies:

Bronwen NeilLeo the Great (London, 2009). WorldCat 

Trevor JallandThe Life and Times of Leo the Great (London, 1941). WorldCat 

Bernard GreenThe Soteriology of Leo the Great (Oxford, 2008). Chaps. 4-5 cover the five cycles of sermons. WorldCat 

Bronwen Neil, “Leo Magnus,” in Preaching in the Latin Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, Audiences, ed. Anthony Dupont, et al., A New History of the Sermon 6 (Leiden, 2018), pp. 327-46.

Bronwen Neil, “The Resurrection of the Body in Leo the Great’s Ascension and Pentecost Homilies,” in Preaching after Easter: Mid-Pentecost, Ascension, and Pentecost in Late Antiquity, ed. Richard W. Bishop, Johan Leemans, and Hajnalka Tamas, Vigiliae Christianae Supplements 136 (Leiden, 2016), pp. 373-85.

Jonathan Mark Armitage, “The Economy of Mercy: The Liturgical Preaching of Saint Leo the Great” (unpubl. DPhil thesis, Durham University, 1997).

Maurice de Sully

Patrologia Latina 205 WorldCat 

Maurice de Sully (Arlima bibliography)

Jean LongèreLes sermons latins de Maurice de Sully, évêque de Paris († 1196). Contribution à l’histoire de la tradition manuscrite, Instrumenta Patristica 16 (Steenbrugge, 1988). WorldCat 

Sermons for the Liturgical Year, ed. and trans. Hugh Bernard Feiss, Ronald Pepin and Maria Rebbert, Victorine Texts in Translation 8 (Turnhout, 2018). Includes five sermons by Maurice de Sully.

Frans van Liere,  and Franklin T. HarkinsInterpretation of Scripture: Practice: A Selection of Works of Hugh, Andrew, Richard, and Leonius of St Victor, and of Robert of Melun, Peter Comestor and Maurice of Sully, Victorine Texts in Translation 6 (Turnhout, 2019). Translates Sermon 35, pp. 471-74.

Beata Spieralska, “Les sermons ad populum de Maurice de Sully et leur adaptation française : Introduction,” sermones.net

Beata Spieralska-Kasprzyk, “Prêcher sur le prêche. La réflexion de Maurice de Sully sur l’importance et la nature de la prédication,” Medieval Sermon Studies 61 (2017), 73-80.

C. A. RobsonMaurice of Sully and the Medieval Vernacular Homily (Oxford, 1952).

Andrew ReevesReligious Education in Thirteenth-Century England: The Creed and Articles of Faith (Leiden, 2015), pp. 75-86.

Maximus (I.) of Turin

Edition:

Maximi Episcopi Taurinensis Collectio sermonum antiqua, ed. A. Mutzenbecher, CCSL 23 (Turnhout, 1962). WorldCat 

Clemens Weidmann, “Vier unerkannte Predigten des Maximus von Turin,” Sacris Erudiri 53 (2014), 99-130. WorldCat 

Translations:

The Sermons of St. Maximus of Turin, trans. Boniface Ramsay, Fathers of the Church 50 (New York, 1989). WorldCat 

Massimo di Torino, Sermoni liturgici, trans. Milena Mariani Puerari (Milan, 1999). WorldCat 

Studies:

Clemens Weidmann, “Maximus of Turin. Two Preachers of the Fifth Century,” in Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, and Audiences in the Latin West, ed. Anthony Dupont et al., A New History of the Sermon 6 (Leiden, 2018), pp. 347-72.

A. Mutzenbecher, “Bestimmung der echten Sermones des Maximus Taurinensis,” Sacris Erudiri 12 (1961), 197–293.WorldCat 

Marietta Cashen ConroyImagery in the Sermones of Maximus, Bishop of Turin, Patristic Studies 99 (Washington, D.C., 1965). WorldCat 

Andreas MerktMaximus I. von Turin: Die Verkündigung eines Bischofs der frühen Reichskirche im zeitgeschichtlichen, gesellschaftlichen und liturgischen Kontext, Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 40 (Leiden, 1997). WorldCat 

Monastic Preachers

Beverly Mayne Kienzle, “The Twelfth-Century Monastic Sermon,” in The Sermon, ed. Kienzle, pp. 271-323 WorldCat 

Medieval Monastic Preaching, ed. Carolyne Muessig (Leiden, 1998). WorldCat 

Oxford Preachers

Beryl Smalley, “Oxford University Sermons,” in Essays in Honour of R. W. Hunt, ed. J. J. G. Alexander and M. T. Gibson (Oxford, 1976), pp. 307-27.

Parisian Preachers

See also Victorine Preachers.

Nicole Bériou, L’avènement des maîtres de la Parole. La prédication à Paris au XIIIe siècle, 2 vols. Collection des Études Augustiniennes 31-32 (Paris, 1998). WorldCat 

Louis-Jacques Bataillon, “Sermoni e orazioni d’ambiente universitario parigino nel sec. XIII,” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 5 (1994), 297-329.

Palémon Glorieux, “Sermons universitaires parisiens de 1267-1268,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale16 (1949), 40-72.

Peter Comestor

Patrologia Latina 171, 476-81, 583-744 [attributed wrongly to Hildebert of Lavardin]; 198, 1809-44. WorldCat 

P. H. Tibber, “The Origins of the Scholastic Sermon, c. 1130-c. 1210” (DPhil thesis, Oxford University, 1984)., pp. 290-339, analyzes Comestor’s standard sermon collection.

André Wilmart, “Les sermons d’Hildebert,” Revue Bénédictine 47 (1935), 12–51. WorldCat 

M.-M. Lebreton, “Recherches sur les manuscrits contenant des sermons de Pierre le Mangeur,” Bulletin d’information de l’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes 2 (1953), 25–44.“Additions et corrections,” 4 (1956), 35-36. WorldCat 

Peter Lombard

The Sermons of Peter the Lombard: Text, Translation, and Commentary, 2 vols. ed. Lee M. Fratantuono and Stephen Maddux (Leuven, 2017).

I. BradyMagistri Petri Lombardi Parisiensis episcopi Sententiae in IV libris distinctae, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum 4 (Grottaferrata, 1971), pp. 93-112. WorldCat 

 Peter of Celle

Sermones, Patrologia Latina 202, 637-926. WorldCat 

Gerard De Martel, “Recherches sur les manuscrits des sermons de Pierre de Celle,” Scriptorium 33 (1979), 3-16. WorldCat

Gerard De MartelRecherches sur les manuscrits des sermons de Pierre de Celle (Gand, 1979). WorldCat 

Petrus Chrysologus

Editions:

Sermones, ed. Alexandre Olivar, CCSL 24, 24A, and 24B (Turnhout, 1975-82). WorldCat 

Sancti Petri Chrysologi collectio sermonum, ed. Alexandri Olivar / San Pietro Crisologi Sermoni, trans. Gabriele Banterle et al., 3 vols., Scriptores circa Ambrosium / San Pietro Crisologo 1-3 (Milan, 1996-97). WorldCat 

Translations:

Saint Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons and Letter to Eutyches, trans. George E. Ganss, Fathers of the Church 17 (Washington, D.C., 1953). WorldCat 

Saint Peter Chrysologus, Selected Sermons, vols. 2-3, trans. William B. Palardy, Fathers of the Church 109-110 (Washington, D.C., 2004-05). WorldCat 

Studies:

Alexandre OlivarLos sermones de San Pedro Crisologo: Estudio critico, Scripta et Documenta 13 (Montserrat, 1962). WorldCat 

Alexandre Olivar, “Die Textüberlieferung der Predigten des Petrus Chrysologus,” in Texte und Textkritik: eine Aufstatzsammlung, ed. J. Dummer, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 133 (Berlin, 1987), pp. 469–87. WorldCat 

Franco SottocornolaL’anno liturgico nei sermoni di Pietro Crisologo: ricerca storico-critica sulla liturgia di Ravenna antica (Cesena, 1973).

Alexandre OlivarLos Sermones de San Pedro Crisólogo: Estudio Critico (Montserrat, 1962).

Nathan J. Ristuccia, “Law and Legal Documents in the Sermons of Peter Chrysologus,” Journal of Late Antiquity 4 (2011), 124-56.

Ruggero BenericettiIl Cristo nei sermoni di S. Pier Crisologo (Cesena, 1995).

Bogusław KochaniewiczLa Vergine Maria nei sermoni di San Pietro Crisologo (Rome, 1998).

Quodvultdeus

Opera Quodvultdeo Carthaginiensi episcopo tributa, ed. R. Braun, CCSL 60 (Turnhout, 1976). WorldCat 

Quodvultdeus of Carthage: The Creedal Homilies. Conversion in Fifth-Century North Africa, trans. Thomas Macy Finn, Ancient Christian Writers 60 (New York, 2004). WorldCat 

Ranulphe de la Houblonnière

Nicole BériouLa prédication de Ranulphe de la Houblonnière. Sermons aux clercs et aux simple gens à Paris au XIIIe siècle, 2 vols., Études augustiniennes (Paris, 1987). WorldCat 

Scholastic Preachers

Louis-Jacques Bataillon, “Early Scholastic and Mendicant Preaching as Exegesis of Scripture,” in Ad Litteram. Authoritative Texts and Their Medieval Readers, ed. Mark D. Jordan and Kent Emery Jr. (Notre Dame IN, 1992), pp. 165-98.

P. H. Tibber, “The Origins of the Scholastic Sermon, c. 1130-c. 1210” (DPhil thesis, Oxford University, 1984). Covers inter alia Robert Pullen, Peter Lombard, Peter Comestor, Hilduin, Peter of Poitiers, Steven Langton and Prevostin of Cremona.

Stephen Langton

Stephen Langton: Selected Sermons, ed. Phyllis Barzillay Roberts, Toronto Medieval Latin Texts 10 (Toronto, 1980). WorldCat 

Johann Baptist Schneyer, “Eine Sermonesliste des Kardinals Stephan Langton Erzbischofs von Canterbury,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 29 (1962), 159-205. WorldCat 

Phyllis Barzillay RobertsStudies in the Sermons of Stephen Langton, Studies and Texts 16 (Toronto, 1968). See esp. Ch. II, which includes “The Langton Sermons: A Bibliographical Survey,” pp. 23-27. WorldCat 

Phyllis Barzillay Roberts, “Master Stephen Langton preaches to the People and Clergy: Sermon Texts from the Twelfth Century,” Traditio 36 (1980), 237-68. WorldCat 

Nicole Bériou, “La prédication d’Eteinne Langton. Un état de la question quarante ans après la thèse de Phyllis Roberts,” in Étienne Langton: Prédicateur, bibliste, théologien, ed. Louis-Jacques Bataillon, Nicole Bériou, Gilbert Dahan, and Riccardo Quinto, Bibliothèque d’histoire culturelle du moyen âge 9 (Turnhout, 2010), pp. 397-426. WorldCat 

Thomas de Chobham

Thomas de Chobham, Sermones, ed. Franco Morenzoni, CCCM 82A (Turnhout, 1993). WorldCat 

Franco MorenzoniDes écoles aux paroisses. Thomas de Chobham et la promotion de la prédication au début du XIIIe siècle, Collection des Études Augustiniennes 30 (Paris, 1995). WorldCat 

Thomas Aquinas

Sancti Thomae de Aquino Opera Omnia, 44/1: Sermones, ed. Louis-Jacques Bataillon (Rome, 2014). WorldCat 

Thomas Aquinas. The Academic Sermons, trans. Mark-Robin Hoogland, Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation 11 (Washington D.C., 2010). WorldCat 

Mark-Robin Hoogland, “Thomas the Preacher Rediscovered,” Jaarboek 2011 Thomas Instituut te Utrecht 31 (2011), 11-45. WorldCat 

Louis-Jacques Bataillon, “Les sermons attribués à Saint Thomas. Questions d’authenticité,” in Thomas von Aquin. Werk und Wirkung im Licht neuerer Forschungen, ed. H. Zimmermann, Miscellanea Mediaevalia 19 (Berlin, 1988), pp. 325-41. WorldCat 

Jean-Pierre TorrellSaint Thomas Aquinas, vol. 1: The Person and His Work, 2nd. ed., trans. Robert Royal (Washington, D.C., 2005). Includes “Brief Catalogue of the Works of Saint Thomas Aquinas,” pp. 330-60; 424-38. WorldCat 

Randall B. SmithReading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide (Steubenville OH, 2016). WorldCat 

University Preachers

Phyllis B. Roberts, “Sermons and Preaching in/and the Medieval University,” in Medieval Education, ed. Ronald B. Begley and Joseph W. Kotersky (New York, 2005), pp. 83-98. WorldCat 

Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City, University, ed. Jacqueline Hamesse et al. (Louvain-La-Neuve, 1998). WorldCat 

Jacqueline Hamesse, “La prédication universitaire,” in La predicazione dei frati dalla metà del ‘200 alla fine del ‘300. Atti del XXII Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 13-15 ottobre 1994 (Spoleto, 1995), pp. 47-80. WorldCat 

M. M. Davy, Les sermons universitaires parisiens de 1230-1231; contribution à l’histoire de la prédication médiévale(Paris, 1931). WorldCat 

Victorine Preachers

Sermons for the Liturgical Year, ed. and trans. Hugh Bernard Feiss, Ronald Pepin and Maria Rebbert, Victorine Texts in Translation 8 (Turnhout, 2018).

William Peraldus

Thomas KaeppeliScriptores ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, 2 vols. (Rome, 1975), II, 133-52. WorldCat 

Siegfried WenzelThe Sermons of William Peraldus: An Appraisal (Turnhout, 2017). WorldCat 

Andrew ReevesReligious Education in Thirteenth-Century England: The Creed and Articles of Faith (Leiden, 2015), pp. 97-114.

Homilies for Major Feasts and Topics

Feasts

Rogationtide:

The “Index sermonum de tempore” in the Patrologia Latina database lists the following Rogationtide sermons: In Rogationibus, seu Litaniis.–Abaelardus, CLXXVIII, 489. S. Augustinus, XXXIX, 2076, 2078, 279. S. Bernardus, CLXXXIII, 297, 298. Guerricus, CLXXXV, 151. Hildebertus. CLXXI, 567, 572, 574, 577. Honorius, CLXXII, 297. S. Martinus, CCVIII, 1009, 1035. Petrus Comestor, CXCVIII, 1775. Wernerus, CLVII, 961, 964. The “Index homiliarum de tempore” lists the following homilies for the vigil of the Ascension (also Rogation Wednesday): In Vigilia Ascensionis.–Godefridus, CLXXIV, 861. Paulus Winfridus, XCV, 1339. Rabanus Maurus, CX, 226, 228. Radulphus Ardens, CLV, 1906, 1911.

Marianne Pollheimer, “Preaching Romanness in the Early Middle Ages: The Sermon De litaniis from the Eusebius Gallicanus Collection,” Early Medieval Europe 22 (2014), 419-32.

Avitus of Vienne, “Homily 6 on Rogations,” trans. Danuta Shanzer and Ian Wood in Avitus of Vienne:  Letters and Selected Prose (Liverpool, 2002), pp. 381-90.

Nathan J. RistucciaChristianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe: A Ritual Interpretation (Oxford, 2019).

Jean Leclercq, “Pour l’histoire de deux processions,” Ephemerides liturgicae 62 (1948), 83-88.

Thomas N. Hall and Nathan Ristuccia; “A Rogationtide Sermon from Eleventh-Century Salisbury,” Revue Bénédictine 123 (2013), 42-64.

Paul W. Robinson, “Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer and the Rogation Days in the Later Middle Ages,” in A History of Prayer: The First to the Fourteenth Century, ed. Roy Hammerling (Leiden, 2008), pp. 441-62.

Topics

Marriage:

David D’AvrayMedieval Marriage Sermons: Mass Communication in a Culture without Print (Oxford, 2001).

David D’Avray and M. Tausche, “Marriage Sermons in Ad Status Collections of the Central Middle Ages,” Archives d’histoire doctrinale et litteraire du moyen âge 47 (1980), 71-119.

Nicole Bériou and David L. D’AvrayModern Questions about Medieval Sermons: Essays on Marriage, Death, History and Sanctity (Spoleto, 1994). WorldCat 

Andrew Galloway, “Marriage Sermons, Polemical Sermons, and The Wife of Bath’s Prologue: A Generic Excursus,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992), 67-79.

V.  Homiliaries

For an overview see Henri Barré, “Homéliaires,” Dictionnaire de Spiritualité 7 (1969), 597-606. WorldCat For homiliaries down to Bede see Clavis Patrum Latinorum, pp. 652-54. See also the “Index collection, homiliarium, sermoniarum et codicum” in MachielsenClavis Patristica Pseudepigraphorum Medii Aevi IB, 1063-1115.

Réginald GrégoireHomiliaires liturgiques médiévaux: Analyse des manuscrits (Spoleto, 1980). WorldCat Inventories contents of the major homiliaries, including Paul the Deacon’s. Updated and expanded version of Grégoire’s Les homiliaires du Moyen Âge (Rome, 1966) WorldCat , which is still of value for the texts published in the appendices.

A. G. MartimortLes lectures liturgiques et leurs livres, Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental 64 (Turnhout, 1992), pp. 77-96.

Réginald Grégoire, “Les homéliaires liturgiques des églises d’Orient,” Parole de l’Orient 4 (1968), 37-53. WorldCat 

Henri BarréLes Homiliaires carolingiens de l’école d’Auxerre, Studi e Testi 225 (Rome, 1962). WorldCat 

Raymond ÉtaixHoméliaires patristiques latins. Receuil d’études de manuscrits médiévaux (Paris, 1994). WorldCat 

François Dolbeau, “Naissance des homéliaires et des passionaires. Une tentative d’étude comparative,” in Antiquité tardive dans les collections médiévales: textes et représentations, VIe-XIVe siècle (Rome, 2008), pp. 1-23. WorldCat 

Nicole Bériou, “Les prologues de recueils de sermons latins, du XIIe au XVe siècle,” in Les prologues médiévaux, ed. Jacqueline Hamesse (Turnhout, 2000), pp. 395-426.

Germain MorinCaesarii Arelatensis Sermones, CCSL 108 (Turnhout, 1953), pp. XXIV-CXXII, inventories homiliaries that contain homilies by Caesarius. WorldCat 

Repertorio degli Omeliari del Medioevo (R.O.M.E.)

Medieval Miscellanies – Homiliaries

Omeliari in Scrittura beneventana

Marianne Pollheimer and Max Diesenberger, Der Prediger und sein Text: Predigthandschriften im frühmittelalterlichen Bayern

Gionata Brusa“Gli omeliari della Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli,” Scrineum Rivista 10.10 (5 December 2013). WorldCat 

VI.  The Pericope System

For an overview see Cyril VogelMedieval Liturgy: An Introduction to the Sources, trans. and rev. W. Storey and N. Rasmussen (Washington, D.C., 1981), ch. VII: The Liturgical Readings, pp. 291-56. WorldCat 

Thales Database. Thesaurus Antiquorum Lectionariorum Ecclesiae Synagogaeque. Requires (free) registration.  Currently includes the following early lectionaries: Bobbio Missal; Lectionary of Luxeuil; Mozarabic Lectionary; Comes Romanus Wirziburgensis; Comes of Murbach; Comes of Alcuin.

Stephan BeisselEntstehung der Perikopen des römischen Messbuches: Zur Geschichte der Evangelienbücher in der ersten Hälfte des Mittelalters (Rome, 1907), with comparative tables at pp. 157-92 and an index of pericopes at 197-211. WorldCat 

Gerhard KunzeDie gottesdienstliche Schriftlesung, 1: Stand und Aufgaben der Pericopenforschung, Veroffentlichungen der evangelischen Gesellschaft für Liturgieforschung, 1 (Göttingen, 1947). WorldCat 

Hughes Olifant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Church, vol. 2: The Patristic Age (New York, 1998) WorldCat ; vol. 3: The Medieval Church (New York, 1999). WorldCat 

Theodor Klauser, Das römische capitulare evangeliorum, Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen und Forschungen 28 (Münster, 1935). WorldCat 

W. H. FrereStudies in the Early Roman Liturgy, 2: The Roman Gospel-Lectionary; 3: The Roman Epistle-Lectionary, Alcuin Club Collections 30, 32 (London, 1934-35). WorldCat 

Ursula LenkerDie Westsächsische Evangelienversion und die Perikopenordnungen im angelsächsischen England(Munich, 1997). WorldCat 

G. Godu, “Epitres” and “Evangiles,” in Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie 5/1, 345-344 and 852-923. WorldCat 

A. G. MartimortLes lectures liturgiques et leurs livres, Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental 64 (Turnhout, 1992).

Jean-Paul Bouhot, “Les lectionnaires latins,” in Christian-Bernard Amphoux and Jean-Paul BouhotLa lecture liturgique des Épitres catholiques dans l’Église ancienne (Lausanne, 1996), pp. 239-82. Covers Roman, Spanish, and Gallican lectionaries; with an appendix on the sermons of Augustine.

VII.  English Translations

Hermann Josef SiebenKirchenväterhomilien zum Neuen Testament: Ein Repertorium der Textausgaben und Übersetzungen, mit einem Anhang der Kirchenväterkommentare, Instrumenta Patristica 22 (Steenbrugge, 1991). WorldCat  

The Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers, 4 vols., trans. M. F. Toal (Chicago, 1958-63).WorldCat The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, trans. Edmund Hill, ed. John E. Rotelle (Brooklyn, 1990-97). WorldCat  Includes the sermons: pt. 3, v. 1. Sermons on the Old Testament, 1-19 — pt. 3, v. 2. Sermons on the Old Testament, 20-50 — pt. 3, v. 3. Sermons on the New Testament, 51-94 — pt. 3, v. 4. Sermons on the New Testament, 94A-147A — pt. 3, v. 5. Sermons on the New Testament, 148-183 — pt. 3, v. 6. Sermons on the liturgical seasons, 184-229 — pt. 3, v. 7. Sermons on the liturgical seasons, 230-272B — pt. 3, v. 8. Sermons on the saints, 273-305A — pt. 3, v. 9. Sermons on the saints, 306-340A — v. 10. Sermons on various subjects, 341-400 — pt. 3, v. 18. Expositions of the Psalms, 73-98.

Basil the Great, Homilies on the Hexaemeron (NPNF series)

Hilary of Poitiers, Homilies on the Psalms (NPNF series)

For others search the LC subject heading “Sermons, English—Translations from Latin.”

VIII.  Exempla

BIBLIEX: Bibliographie européenne des exempla

RELEX: Ressources en ligne des exempla

Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi. Allows searches by collection, “notebook” (published indices such as Aarne-Thompson, Tubach, etc.), Tubach number, word(s) of summary and keywords.

Frederic C. TubachIndex exemplorum: A Handbook of Medieval Religious Tales, Folklore Fellows Communications 86, no. 204 (Helsinki, 1969). WorldCat 

Claude Bremond, Jacques Le Goff, and Jean-Claude SchmittL’ “Exemplum”, Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental 40 (Turnhout, 1982). WorldCat 

Exempel und Exempelsammlungen, ed. W. Haug and B. Wachinger (Tübingen, 1991). WorldCat 

Jacques Berlioz et al., Les exempla médiévaux. Introduction à la recherche suivie des tables critiques de l’Index exemplorum de Frederic C. Tubach (Carcassonne, 1992). WorldCat 

Les Exempla médiévaux: Nouvelles perspectives, ed. Jacques Berlioz and Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu (Paris, 1998). WorldCat 

C. DelcornoExemplum e letteratura tra medieoevo e rinascimento (Bologna, 1989).

Michael MenzelPredigt und Geschichte: Historische Exempel in der geistlichen Rhetorik des Mittelalters (Vienna, 1998). Chap. V surveys exempla collections up to the 13th century and from the 13th to the 14th century (organized theologically, by estates, alphabetically, or chronologically).  WorldCat 

J.-Th. WelterL’exemplum dans la littérature religieuse et didactique du moyen âge (Paris, 1927). WorldCat 

Louis-Jacques Bataillon, “Similitudines et exempla dans les sermons du XIIIe siècle,” in The Bible in the Medieval World: Essays in memory of Beryl Smalley, ed. K. Walsh and D. Wood, Studies in Church History, Subsidia 4 (Oxford, 1985), pp. 191-205. WorldCat 

Rudolf Schenda, “Stand und Aufgaben der Exemplaforschung,” Fabula 10 (1969), 69-85. WorldCat 

Christoph Daxelmüller, “Zum Beispiel: Eine exemplarische Bibliographie (Teil I-III),” Jahrbuch für Volkskunde N.F. 13 (1990), 218-40; N.F. 14 (1991), 215-40; N.F. 15 (1992), 223-44. WorldCat 

Viktoria Smirnova, “L’exemplum médiéval dans une perspective codicologique (XIIIe-XVe siècle),” Revue Mabillonn.s. 24 (2013), 27-59. WorldCat 

Jean-Claude SchmittPrêcher d’exemples: récits de prédicateurs du Moyen Age (Paris, 1985). WorldCat 

Le récit exemplaire (1200-1800). Actes du XXIIIe colloque internationale de la Société d’analyse de la topique romanesque, ed. Véronique Duché-Gavet et Madeleine Jeay (Paris, 2011). WorldCat 

Stefano Mula, “Twelfth‐ and Thirteenth‐Century Cistercian Exempla Collections: Role, Diffusion, and Evolution,” History Compass 8 (2010), 903-12.

Markus SchürerDas Exemplum oder die erzählte Institution. Studien zum Beispielgebrauch bei den Dominikanern und Franziskanern des 13. Jahrunderts (Berlin, 2005).

Peter von MoosGeschichte als Topik. Das rhetorische Exemplum von der Antike zur Neuzeit und die Historiae im “Policraticus” Johanns von Salisbury (Hildesheim, 1988).

Some major medieval collections:

Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, Exempla Medii Aevi, gen. ed. Jacques Berlioz, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, and Jean-Claude Schmitt (Turnhout, 2002- ): 1 and 7: Stephani de Borbone, Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus, ed. Jacques Berlioz and Jean-Luc Eichenlaub, CCCM 124, 124A, 124B (2002-16) WorldCat ; 2: Collectaneum exemplorum et visionum Clarevallense. E codice Trecensi 946, ed. O. Legendre, CCCM 208 (2005) WorldCat ; 3: Stephanus de Borbone, Tractatus de diuersis materiis predicabilis, Tertia pars, ed. Jacques Berlioz, CCCM 124B (2006) WorldCat ; 4: Humbertus de Romanis, De dono timoris, ed. Christine Boyer, CCCM 218 (2008) WorldCat ; 5: Collectio exemplorum Cisterciensis, in codice Parisiensi 15912 asservata, ed. J. Berlioz and M. A. Polo de Beaulieu, CCCM 243 (2012) WorldCat ; 6: Arnoldus Leodiensis, Alphabetum narrationum, ed. Elisa Brilli, with Jacques Berlioz and Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, CCCM 160 (2015). WorldCat ; 8: Herbert of Clairvaux, Liber visionum et miraculorum Clarevallensium, ed. Giancarlo Zichi, Graziano Fois, and Stefano Mula, CCCM 277 (2017).

Thomas Frederick CraneThe Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones Vulgares of Jacques de Vitry(London, 1890). WorldCat 

Caesarius of Heisterbach, Dialogus miraculorum, ed. Joseph StrangeWorldCat 

The Dialogue on Miracles. Caesarius of Heisterbach (1220-1235), trans. H. von E. Scott and C. C. Swinton Bland, 2 vols. (London, 1929). WorldCat 

Césaire de Heisterbach en Ligne

The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogue on Miracles and Its Reception, ed. Victoria Smirnova, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, and Jacques Berlioz (Leiden, 2015).

Liber Exemplorum Ad Usum Praedicantium Saeculo XIII Compositus a Quodam Fratre Minore Anglico De Provincia Hiberniae, ed. A. G. Little (Aberdeen, 1908). WorldCat 

See also KaskeMedieval Christian Literary Imagery, pp. 88-89; BerliozIdentifier sources, pp. 211-22; Mantello and RiggMedieval Latin, pp. 582-88.

IX.  Preachers’ Manuals

Marianne G. Briscoe and Barbara H. JayeArtes praedicandi and Artes orandi, Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental 61 (Turnhout, 1992). WorldCat 

Siegfried WenzelThe Art of Preaching: Five Medieval Texts and Translations. (Washington, D.C., 2013). WorldCat  Includes a bibliography of “Modern Editions and Translations of Artes Praedicandi,” pp. 256-60.

Siegfried WenzelMedieval ‘Artes Praedicandi’: A Synthesis of Scholastic Sermon Structure (Toronto, 2015). WorldCat 

Harry CaplanMediaeval artes praedicandi (New York, 1934). WorldCat ; with A Supplementary Handlist (New York, 1936). WorldCat 

Th.-M. CharlandArtes praedicandi: Contribution à l’histoire de la rhétorique au Moyen Age (Paris, 1936). WorldCat 

Some Major Collections:

Thomas de Chobham, Summa de arte praedicandi, ed. Franco Morenzoni, CCCM 82 (Turnhout, 1988). WorldCat 

Ranulf Higden. The Ars componendi sermones, ed. Margaret Jennings (Leiden, 1991). WorldCat 

Phyllis Barzillay Roberts, “The Ars praedicandi in the Medieval Sermon,” in Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages, ed. Caroline Muessig (Leiden, 2002), pp. 41-62. WorldCat 

Christina von Nolcken, “Some Alphabetical Compendia and How Preachers Used Them in Fourteenth-Century England,” Viator 12 (1981), 271-88. Includes a list of manuscripts and printed texts cited in the article with select bibliography. WorldCat 

H. G. Pfander, “The Medieval Friars and Some Alphabetical Reference-Books for Sermons,” Medium Ævum 3 (1934), 19-29. WorldCat 

Mary E. O’Carroll, A Thirteenth-Century Preacher’s Handbook: Studies in MS Laud Misc. 511, Studies and Texts 128 (Toronto, 1997). WorldCat 

Charles D. Wright: cdwright@illinois.edu

last updated 7/19