The Language of Preaching in the Twelfth Century
Giles Constable
“The Language of Preaching in the Twelfth Century." This article deals with questions how sermons were prepared and transmitted Middle Ages (especially twelfth century), they preached, to whom addressed, what language delivered. It discusses conception, delivery, transcription. preservation sermons, which often survive a form very different from way preached. With regard audiences it studies type degree linguistic divergences extent bilingualism. Some clerics did not understand Latin some laypeople knew Latin, both groups seem have liked sermons. The concludes that preached only clergy vernacular laity but also (contrary view many scholars) mixed, or macaronic, mixed audiences. stories miraculous understanding foreign languages show listeners always know sermon was
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