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The Medieval Church · c. 1199
The Art of Preaching
Ars Praedicandi
Alan of Lille · c. 1128–1202
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What it is
How to construct a sermon: take a text, divide it, support each part with authorities and examples, and adapt the whole to soldiers, married people, judges, or the poor.
Why it lasted
The first medieval handbook of preaching technique, and the ancestor of the thematic sermon the friars would take across Europe.
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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