The Italian Homiliary: An example pro omnibus bonis operibus produced according to the ‘new’ Carolingian homiletic genre and reform measures
Michael Martin
The Italian Homiliary was written in response to the Carolingian reformers’ demands for popular preaching. It represents what Henri Barr3 1962 wrote about Auxerre sermon collections as marking a new stage evolution of homiletics, specifically genre original sermons (authors “re-editing and composing along [their] own lines”). This article examines two issues specific but also impacting studies more generally. text will be examined collection, style Barré suggested, examining shape, use, date, provenance, transmission collection.
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