Much of it was also translated into Welsh - and late medieval Welsh poetry suggests that its hearers were well taught in the basics
Maddy
On 09/04/2018 14:14, Gordon Plumb wrote:
********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religionmedieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religionMyrc's 'Festial' is a volume of vernacular sermons for festivals and other occasins. It was edited for the Early English Text Society by Theodor Erbe in 1905 and
in recent years Sue Powell of Huddersfield had editted it in two volumes also for the EETS. Myrc's 'Instructions for Parish Priests' was edited for the EETS in 1868 by EDward Peacock with a revised edition in 1902. This was a versified guide about what priests should teach their parishioners.
Gordon Plumb
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From: John Beal <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Medieval English Homiliesmedieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religionSomewhat later, in 1281, John Pecham, Archbishop of Canterbury, in his constitutions of the Synod of Oxford ordered
"every priest having charge of a flock do, four times in each year (that is, once each quarter), on one or more solemn feast days, either himself or by some one else, instruct the people in the vulgar language, simply and without any fantastical admixture of subtle distinctions, in the articles of the Creed, the Ten Commandments, the Evangelical Precepts (the Apostles' Creed_, the seven works of mercy, the seven deadly sins with their offshoots, the seven principal virtues, and the Sacraments."
John Myrc, among others, produced books of sermons and homilies, which those clergy who needed help could read.
From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture <MEDIEVAL-[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [M-R] Medieval English Homiliesmedieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religionIn 813, Councils like that in Tours declared that sermons were to be delivered "...in rusticam Romanam linguam aut Theodiscam, quo facilius cuncti possint intellegere quae dicuntur.". I have been looking at English homily collections, and I wonder if there was any such directive coming from the church in England asking priests to deliver their sermons in the vernacular.
Robert D. Peckham, PhD
Professor of French Emeritus
University of Tennessee at Martin