> Can anyone point me in the direction of sustained sermon cycles by one
> author/preacher in Middle English...?
I think that the sermons in BL Add 36791, ed. by Edw.Weatherly
as _Speculum Sacerdotale_, EETS 200 (1936), are usually regarded
as being of single authorship. But if this is so (and I'm not
sure that it still is), it is only on internal, stylistic grounds--
the same reason for supposing the Wycliffite sermon cycle (ed.
A.Hudson and P.Gradon) to be of diverse authorship. Since most
ME sermons are anonymous, you may be trapped in a circular
argument: the stylistic comparison that you wish to test on
a corpus of established authorship is in most cases itself the
only means by which authorship can be established to begin with.
I defer, however, to those who know the sermons better.
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