Title: Higden's Ars componendi
Product review: Higden's Ars componendi sermones, "The Art of Composing Sermons", gives concise and usable rules for composing an effective sermon: how to organize, explain, cite evidence, and win the audience's favor, among other topics. The translation by Sally Wilson gives anyone interested in the Middle Ages access to this important text. Margaret Jennings, who did the Latin edition of the Ars, has written an introduction which discusses the entire genre of preaching manuals, and her notes explain difficulties in Higden's text. The book also includes a bibliography and index, plus a description of the Latin manuscripts of Higden's original text.Highly recommended for students of literature and rhetoric and of the Middle Ages.
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