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The Medieval Church · c. 1263–1277
On the Formation of Preachers
Humbert of Romans · c. 1200–1277
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What it is
How to preach to every conceivable audience — sailors, students, lepers, the recently bereaved, women of ill repute, people at a funeral — with material for each.
Why it lasted
The most practical preaching manual of the Middle Ages, and an extraordinary social document of who friars actually spoke to.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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