Wybren Scheepsma, Ph.D. (1997), Leiden University, works as a post doc researcher at Leiden University. He has published extensively on the role of vernacular religious literature in late medieval Europe.

"This excellent, thorough monograph provides the Anglophone world with a richly-detailed account of one of the earliest collections of Middle Dutch prose, The Limburg Sermons...To say the least, this is an exhaustive treatment of this corpus, and the translator is to be commended for making it available in English." – Steven Rozenski, Jr., Harvard University, in: Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010, pp 307-9"Scheepsma's study is a major contribution to sermon research. It can be viewed not only as an exceptionally diligent and learned book on one Middle Dutch sermon collection, but also as a history of religious literature in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the interfaces between the Dutch-, French-, and German-speaking areas." – Regina D. Schiewer, Universität Augsburg, in: Medium Ævum 77/2 (2008), pp. 358-60"This meticulous, encyclopedic and minutely observed study elicits well-earned respect, and gratitude from English-speaking scholars for making this area of literary study accessible. [...] The insights Scheepsma's analysis of these sermons provides [...] will be of interest not only to literary historians but also to church historians, and art historians as well." – Judith Oliver, Colgate University, in: The Medieval Review, 16 July 2009

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsI. Introduction1. The Hague Manuscript2. The Medieval Sermon3. The St. Georgen Sermons and the Limburg Sermons4. A Cistercian Literature in the Vernacular?5. The Historical ContextII. The Textual Corpus1. The Table of Contents in MS H2. The Translated St. Georgen Sermons3. Dets dbuec van den palmboeme (Ls. 31)4. Seven Passion Sermons (Ls. 32-38)5. Dbuec van den boegaerde (Ls. 39)6. Dbuec van den twelf frogten (Ls. 40)7. Dit leert ons negenrehande minne (Ls. 41)8. Det sin seven maniren van minnen (Ls. 42)9. Dbuec van den gesteleken winkelre (Ls. 43)10. Dets dbuec van heren Selfarts regelen (Ls. 44)11. Dets van der heilger selen (Ls. 45)12. Dets wie onse vrouwe een besloten boegaert es (Ls. 45)13. Laudate dominum in sanctus eius (Ls. 48)14. The Maastrichtse Passiespel15. Preliminary ReviewIII. Form and Function1. An Example: The Spiritual Wine Cellar2. The Fiction of the Sermon3. Bible and Allegory4. Damsels of Jerusalem5. Memoria and Meditation6. Rhyme, Prose and Rhyming ProseIV. Backgrounds1. The Later Transmission2. The Letters of Hadewijch3. Minne and Mysticism4. Old French Religious Literature5. Connections in the Old French Transmission6. Mystical NetworksAppendicesI. Codicological Description of Manuscript HII. The Limburg Sermons According to Manuscript HIII. ConcordanceIV. ‘Brothers’ in Manuscript HV. Two Limburg Sermons in TranslationBibliographyIndex

Wybren Scheepsma, Ph.D. (1997), Leiden University, works as a post doc researcher at Leiden University. He has published extensively on the role of vernacular religious literature in late medieval Europe.

"This excellent, thorough monograph provides the Anglophone world with a richly-detailed account of one of the earliest collections of Middle Dutch prose, The Limburg Sermons...To say the least, this is an exhaustive treatment of this corpus, and the translator is to be commended for making it available in English." – Steven Rozenski, Jr., Harvard University, in: Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010, pp 307-9"Scheepsma's study is a major contribution to sermon research. It can be viewed not only as an exceptionally diligent and learned book on one Middle Dutch sermon collection, but also as a history of religious literature in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the interfaces between the Dutch-, French-, and German-speaking areas." – Regina D. Schiewer, Universität Augsburg, in: Medium Ævum 77/2 (2008), pp. 358-60"This meticulous, encyclopedic and minutely observed study elicits well-earned respect, and gratitude from English-speaking scholars for making this area of literary study accessible. [...] The insights Scheepsma's analysis of these sermons provides [...] will be of interest not only to literary historians but also to church historians, and art historians as well." – Judith Oliver, Colgate University, in: The Medieval Review, 16 July 2009

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsI. Introduction1. The Hague Manuscript2. The Medieval Sermon3. The St. Georgen Sermons and the Limburg Sermons4. A Cistercian Literature in the Vernacular?5. The Historical ContextII. The Textual Corpus1. The Table of Contents in MS H2. The Translated St. Georgen Sermons3. Dets dbuec van den palmboeme (Ls. 31)4. Seven Passion Sermons (Ls. 32-38)5. Dbuec van den boegaerde (Ls. 39)6. Dbuec van den twelf frogten (Ls. 40)7. Dit leert ons negenrehande minne (Ls. 41)8. Det sin seven maniren van minnen (Ls. 42)9. Dbuec van den gesteleken winkelre (Ls. 43)10. Dets dbuec van heren Selfarts regelen (Ls. 44)11. Dets van der heilger selen (Ls. 45)12. Dets wie onse vrouwe een besloten boegaert es (Ls. 45)13. Laudate dominum in sanctus eius (Ls. 48)14. The Maastrichtse Passiespel15. Preliminary ReviewIII. Form and Function1. An Example: The Spiritual Wine Cellar2. The Fiction of the Sermon3. Bible and Allegory4. Damsels of Jerusalem5. Memoria and Meditation6. Rhyme, Prose and Rhyming ProseIV. Backgrounds1. The Later Transmission2. The Letters of Hadewijch3. Minne and Mysticism4. Old French Religious Literature5. Connections in the Old French Transmission6. Mystical NetworksAppendicesI. Codicological Description of Manuscript HII. The Limburg Sermons According to Manuscript HIII. ConcordanceIV. ‘Brothers’ in Manuscript HV. Two Limburg Sermons in TranslationBibliographyIndex

Wybren Scheepsma, Ph.D. (1997), Leiden University, works as a post doc researcher at Leiden University. He has published extensively on the role of vernacular religious literature in late medieval Europe.

"This excellent, thorough monograph provides the Anglophone world with a richly-detailed account of one of the earliest collections of Middle Dutch prose, The Limburg Sermons...To say the least, this is an exhaustive treatment of this corpus, and the translator is to be commended for making it available in English." – Steven Rozenski, Jr., Harvard University, in: Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010, pp 307-9"Scheepsma's study is a major contribution to sermon research. It can be viewed not only as an exceptionally diligent and learned book on one Middle Dutch sermon collection, but also as a history of religious literature in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the interfaces between the Dutch-, French-, and German-speaking areas." – Regina D. Schiewer, Universität Augsburg, in: Medium Ævum 77/2 (2008), pp. 358-60"This meticulous, encyclopedic and minutely observed study elicits well-earned respect, and gratitude from English-speaking scholars for making this area of literary study accessible. [...] The insights Scheepsma's analysis of these sermons provides [...] will be of interest not only to literary historians but also to church historians, and art historians as well." – Judith Oliver, Colgate University, in: The Medieval Review, 16 July 2009

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsI. Introduction1. The Hague Manuscript2. The Medieval Sermon3. The St. Georgen Sermons and the Limburg Sermons4. A Cistercian Literature in the Vernacular?5. The Historical ContextII. The Textual Corpus1. The Table of Contents in MS H2. The Translated St. Georgen Sermons3. Dets dbuec van den palmboeme (Ls. 31)4. Seven Passion Sermons (Ls. 32-38)5. Dbuec van den boegaerde (Ls. 39)6. Dbuec van den twelf frogten (Ls. 40)7. Dit leert ons negenrehande minne (Ls. 41)8. Det sin seven maniren van minnen (Ls. 42)9. Dbuec van den gesteleken winkelre (Ls. 43)10. Dets dbuec van heren Selfarts regelen (Ls. 44)11. Dets van der heilger selen (Ls. 45)12. Dets wie onse vrouwe een besloten boegaert es (Ls. 45)13. Laudate dominum in sanctus eius (Ls. 48)14. The Maastrichtse Passiespel15. Preliminary ReviewIII. Form and Function1. An Example: The Spiritual Wine Cellar2. The Fiction of the Sermon3. Bible and Allegory4. Damsels of Jerusalem5. Memoria and Meditation6. Rhyme, Prose and Rhyming ProseIV. Backgrounds1. The Later Transmission2. The Letters of Hadewijch3. Minne and Mysticism4. Old French Religious Literature5. Connections in the Old French Transmission6. Mystical NetworksAppendicesI. Codicological Description of Manuscript HII. The Limburg Sermons According to Manuscript HIII. ConcordanceIV. ‘Brothers’ in Manuscript HV. Two Limburg Sermons in TranslationBibliographyIndex