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There certainly are many records of many sermons in Latin, Jim, but these sermons were delivered to audiences that understood Latin.
Bernard's success in Germany is attributed in hagiographical sources to his miraculous charisma. More likely, he followed common sense advice from preaching manuals that said if a preacher is delivering a sermon in a place where he does not speak the vernacular, he should try things like learning some phrases in that language, or using exempla that mention local place names, so that listeners might pick up the gist of the preacher's intended message. But of course, translators were also used when possible and necessary.
Best wishes, George
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On 19 Jul 2012, at 23:23, James Bugslag wrote:
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> George,
> Was it that straightforward? Preachers moved about a lot. Their mutual knowledge of Latin meant that they could converse with each other, but, for example, when St. Bernard made a preaching tour of Germany, if the sermons were to be in the vernacular, he would have had to have a translator handy, I would imagine.
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> Jim
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> Dear Al,
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> It was the norm, throughout the medieval period, for sermons to be delivered in the vernacular understood by its audience.
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> Do ask Tennessee Bob to join us … This way, he can answer any queries we may have about his own queries.
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> Best wishes, George
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> On 19 Jul 2012, at 21:30, Al Magary wrote:
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>> I take the liberty of forwarding this query from a non-subscriber of note. Cheers, Al Magary
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>> My basic question, Is there any conciliar pronouncement like that of the Council of Tours asking priests to preach in the language of the people? Specifically these words "ut easdem omelias quisque aperte transferre studeat in rusrkam Romanam linguam aut Theotiscam, quo facilius cuncti possint intellegere quae dicuntur". Were sermons, without the urging of conciliar pronouncement, delivered in whatever English or Anglo-Saxon was spoken in each region?
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