Frater Petrus, Collationes de tempore (Fourteenth Century)

Daniel Nodes, PhD in Medieval Studies, (1982, University of Toronto) is Professor of Classics at Baylor University. His research centers on the intersection of Christian theology and literary culture from late antiquity to the early modern period.

"This volume of sixty-three sermons will shed valuable light on preaching method and style of a Franciscan friar in a normal setting of the pre-Observant fourteenth century. Daniel Nodes’s careful Latin edition with clear English translation enables readers to penetrate more deeply into biblical interpretation and instruction during the High Middle Ages."Nigel F. Palmer, Emeritus Professor of Medieval German, St Edmund Hall, Oxford"In the later Middle Ages, the friars created a system of mass communication based on collections of Latin model sermons which could be turned into the vernacular for lay congregations anywhere. Examples of these model sermons in critical editions are rare and critical editions accompanied by translations to which a good student can be directed are almost non-existent. Dan Nodes earns the gratitude of scholars and teachers of medieval religious history by filling this glaring gap."D. L. d’Avray, Emeritus Professor of History, UCL

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAbbreviationsIntroduction1 The Text and Its Significance2 Collationes de tempore3 The Manuscript Witnesses4 The Relationship between Witnesses5 The Content and Nature of Petrus’s Collations6 The Author and His Audience: Who Was Frater Petrus? For Whom Were the Collations Composed?7 Notes on the Present Edition and TranslationText and TranslationAppendix 1: Endpaper PrayerAppendix 2: Conspectus of Collations, Feast Days, and LectionsSelect BibliographyIndex