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Three Oxford Exemplum Books

John of Wales, Breviloquium de virtutibus antiquorum principum et philosophorum; Thomas Waleys, Moralitates in Ysaiam; Robert Holcot, Moralitates

Av Ralph Hanna

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The most ubiquitous medieval instruction was oral and came from the pulpit. Sermons not only addressed basic Christian responsibilities, but also a great deal more. Following contemporary homiletic practice, preachers were expected to illustrate their points, and a variety of tools had been developed to aid them in this rhetorical amplification. Among these, exemplum books, collections of illustrative stories, had a primary place and were particularly effective in addressing lay audiences. As part of a drive for innovative and arresting anecdotes of this type, Oxford preaching materials are particularly renowned for their use of classical materials for this purpose.This volume, following a lengthy introduction that addresses the cultural importance of exempla, presents editions and translations of three outstanding examples of the genre, all assembled by Oxford mendicants: John of Wales’s Breviloquium (1260s), Thomas Waleys’s Moralitates in Isaiam (c. 1320), and Robert Holcot’s Moralitates (1330s?). While there is a century’s worth of discussion of sermon exempla, this volume is the first collection devoted exclusively to insular materials.
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Ralph Hanna is Professor of Palaeography (Emeritus) and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow, former Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute (Harvard University), and winner of the British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize for English Language 2015. His many books with Liverpool University Press include John Ridewall, Fulgentius metaforalis (2023), Looking at Medieval Books: Learning to See (2023), Robert Holcot, exegete (2021) and Malachy the Irishman, On Poison (2020).

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'The value of these texts - for research into preaching and rhetorical practice in the late Middle Ages, among other fields - is beyond dispute. The English translation, produced by Ralph Hanna himself, is excellent and exceptionally readable. It also makes the texts accessible to a broader readership unfamiliar with Latin. The collections of exempla currently available are thus supplemented by further substantial texts of English provenance. It is now up to scholars to engage with this new resource.'Translated from German: 'Unbestreitbar ist der Nutzen dieser Texte (nicht nur) für die Forschungen zur Predigt und rhetorischen Praxis im späten Mittelalter. Hervorragend und außerordentlich gut lesbar präsentiert sich die englische Übersetzung, die von Ralph Hanna selbst stammt. Durch sie werden die Texte auch einer breiteren, des Lateinischen unkundigen Leserschaft zugänglich gemacht. Die bisher zur Verfügungstehenden Exempelsammlungen werden soum weitere, aussagekräftige Texte englischer Provenienz ergänzt. An der Forschung ist es nun, auf dieses neue Angebot einzugehen.' Ralf Lützelschwab, Rezensionen

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