Artiklen præsenterer og diskuterer et pergamentfragment på Det Kongelige Bibliotek i København (Fragmentsamling, nr. 3230), ét blad af et nu tabt håndskrift. Det indeholder en mirakelberetning om en bispemorder, en fortælling der også findes i det berømte opbyggelsesværk Sjælens trøst. Fragmentet er dog ikke en overlevende rest af den store, tabte del af det danske Sjælens trøst-håndskrift (de to overlevende rester findes som Ups. C 529 og Holm. A 109); fragmentet hører hjemme i en anden redaktion eller snarere i en helt anden overleveringstradition.

In The Revelations of St Birgitta: A Study and Edition of the Birgittine-Norwegian Texts, Swedish National Archives, E 8902, Jonathan Adams offers a detailed analysis of the manuscript and its contents as well as a new edition of this puzzling text. The Birgittine-Norwegian texts are very distinctive from the main Birgittine vernacular corpus of literature and have taxed scholars for decades as to why and for whom they were written.

The linguistic study of the manuscript is combined with contextual and historical information in order to reinforce the arguments made and offer explanations within a cultural context. This provides a welcome new dimension to earlier research that has otherwise been pursued to a large degree within a single academic discipline.

CONTENTS

Table of contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

I Background

1 St Birgitta and her Revelations

1.1 Why St Birgitta?

1.2 The life of St Birgitta

1.3 The Revelations of St Birgitta (Latin tradition)

1.4 The Revelations of St Birgitta (Swedish tradition)

1.5 This book

2 Textual history of the vernacular Scandinavian manuscripts

2.1 Extant Swedish manuscripts

2.1.1 Swedish retranslation

2.2 Other Scandinavian manuscripts

2.2.1 Old Danish

2.2.2 Middle Norwegian

2.3 Summary

3 Birgitta and Norway

3.1 Towards Nordic union in the fourteenth century: Royalty and the nobility

3.2 Birgitta’s own personal contacts with Norway

3.3 Birgitta’s family connections with Norway

3.4 The Birgittine Movement in Norway and Munkeliv

3.5 Summary

4 Summary of previous research into the manuscript

4.1 Gustaf E. Klemming

4.2 Robert Geete

4.3 Knut B. Westman

4.4 Vilhelm Gödel

4.5 Salomon Kraft

4.6 Marius Sandvei

4.7 Didrik Arup Seip

4.8 Elias Gustaf Adolf Wessén

4.9 Lars Wollin

4. 10 Lennart Moberg

4.11 Hans Torben Gilkær

4.12 General evaluation of earlier theories

II Manuscript

5 Manuscript description

5.1 Date and origin

5.2 Provenance

5.3 Contents

5.4 Make-up and description

5.4.1 Foliation

5.4.2 Materials and dimensions

5.4.3 Quiring

5.4.4 Ruling and pricking

5.4.5 Catchwords

5.5 Script

5.5.1 Scribal characteristics

5.5.2 Abbreviations

5.5.3 Punctuation

5.5.4 Hyphenation and Word Division

5.5.5 Spacing

5.5.6 Rubrics and Guide Letters

5.5.7 Marginal Notes

5.6 Binding

5.7 Damage

5.8 Scribal error

III Language

6 Lexicon: idiosyncracies, foreign influence, and dialectal forms

6.1 Hapax Legomena

6.1.1 *drøvuker

6.1.2 *iakilse and *iatilse

6.1.3 *nidherflytilse

6.1.4 *solbadh

6.1.5 *spailse

6.1.6 *søkiarinna

6.1.7 *unsæld

6.1.8 *urfamse/orfamse

6.1.9 Distribution

6.1.10 Discussion

6.2 Middle Low German loanwords

6.2.1 Unbound Morphemes

6.2.2 Bound Morphemes

6.2.3 Summary

6.3 Latin words and phrases in E 8902

6.3.1 Adjectives and Common Nouns

6.3.2 Proper Nouns

6.4 Vadstenaspråk-like, Östgötska, and Danish features

7 Language mixture in medieval Scandinavian manuscripts

7.1 Causes of Swedish influence on Norwegian in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

7.1.1 Early definitions

7.1.2 The problem of defining “norm” in the context of Old Norwegian 

7.1.3 Internal causes of mixture

7.1.4 External causes of mixture

7.1.5 A diglossic situation in late medieval Norway?

7.2. Intentional types of language mixture in medieval Scandinavian manuscripts

7.2.1 Terminology

7.2.2 Summary

7.3 Causes of unintentional language mixture (“interference”) in medieval Scandinavian manuscripts

7.3.1 Scribe’s own idiolect

7.3.2 Scribe’s own dialect

7.3.3 Dialect of the original

7.3.4 Dialect of the area

7.3.5 Norm of the genre

7.3.6 Norm of the scriptorium

7.3.7 Audience

7.3.8 Summary

7.4 Concluding remarks

8 Analysis of language mixture in E 8902

8.1 The use of statistics in literary research

8.2 The diagnostic test features for E 8902 

8.2.1 Diagnostic test feature A: Progressive i-mutation

8.2.2 Diagnostic test feature B: Itacism

8.2.3 Diagnostic test feature C: Diphthongisation

8.2.4 Diagnostic test feature D: Monophthongisation

8.2.5 Diagnostic test feature E: Vowel merger

8.2.6 Diagnostic test feature F: Elision

8.2.7 Diagnostic test feature G: Dental assimilation

8.2.8 Diagnostic test feature H: First person singular pronoun

8.2.9 Diagnostic test feature I: Relative particle

8.2.10 Diagnostic test feature J: Anglo-Saxon letter forms

8.3 Statistical procedure

8.3.1 Total number of occurrences and proportion

8.3.2 Rate of occurrence

8.3.3 Ellegård’s distinctiveness ratio

8.3.4 Testing for significance

8.3.5 Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient

8.3.6 Summary

8.4 Language mixture

8.4.1 Findings of the statistical analysis of language mixture

8.5 Miscellaneous south-eastern Norwegian Forms

8.5.1 The intrusive svarabhakti vowel

8.5.2 Metaphony

8.5.3 Metathesis of “vr”

8.6 Summary of hand mixture types

8.6.1 Hand 1

8.6.2 Hand 2

8.6.3 Hand 3

8.6.4 Hand 4

8.7 Summary of linguistic analysis

9 Conclusion

9.1 Summary of aims, methods, and findings

9.2 Writing E 8902 

9.2.1 Scribes

9.2.2 Language

9.2.3 Place of composition

9.2.4 The manuscript’s place in the Swedish tradition

9.3 Contents and audience

IV Edition

10 Text and commentary

10.1 Editorial procedure

10.2 Transcription

11 Commentary, references, and indexes

11.1 Commentary and references

11.2 Index of names and places in E 8902

Bibliography

Index

In 1516 Poul Ræff published Nouiter in lucem data: iudeorum secreta (‘Recently brought out into the light: The secrets of the Jews’), his Danish translation of Johannes Pfefferkorn’s Libellus de Judaica confessione (‘The small book of the confession of the Jews’ from 1508). Nouiter in lucem data is the oldest extant book in Danish printed by a Dane in Denmark – something that makes the book rather remarkable. (Earlier books in Danish had been printed either by Danes abroad or by foreigners in Denmark.)

This paper will investigate how Ræff translated Pfefferkorn by focusing on his use of native elements, mistranslations and errors, and omissions and simplifications. It will also look at the context in which Ræff’s translation was read by looking at the marginalia and surrounding texts tha Nouiter in lucem data is bound with in its two extant copies. Furthermore, it will attempt to answer the question of why Ræff invested his time and money in publishing Pfefferkorn in Denmark – a country with no resident Jewish population at the time – and whether he was successful in his aims.

I Østnordisk filologi – nu og i fremtiden finder man diskussionsoplæg og artikler skrevet af nitten af tidens mest markante forskere inden for den østnordiske filologi. Udover at redegøre for fagets nuværende status og drøfte dets fremtid afspejler bogen den brede vifte af arbejder og aktiviteter, som foregår for tiden, og illustrerer, hvordan faget er i gang med at udvikle og forny sig.

I kapitlet Perspektiver kan man læse fem etablerede forskeres overvejelser og refleksioner over den østnordiske filologi; de giver stof til eftertanke i form af brugbare pejlemærker og gode råd til yngre forskere.

De fem artikler i afsnittet Østnordisk filologi – hvordan og hvorfor? omhandler fagets historie, udbredelse, læremidler samt metodiske udviklinger.

Afsnittet Håndskriftstudier indeholder tre artikler, der beskæftiger sig med et antal svenske håndskrifter (som bl.a. indeholder Birgittas åbenbaringer, allegorisk digtning og lovtekster).

De fem artikler samlet i det sidste afsnit, Tekster og kulturhistorie, omhandler emner som latinsk-svensk sprogblanding, udviklingen af den senmiddelalderlige litteratur, sammenhængen mellem materiel og skriftlig kultur, oversættelse samt tekst- og håndskrifttransmission til Norden sydfra.

Bogen er den første publikation udgivet af Selskab for Østnordisk Filologi, stiftet i Uppsala i 2013.

INDHOLD

Liste over illustrationer

Tak

1. Indledning: Østnordisk filologi – nu og i fremtiden

Jonathan Adams

2. Perspektiver

Stephen Mitchell, Bridget Morris, Per-Axel Wiktorsson, Henrik Williams & Lars Wollin

I. ØSTNORDISK FILOLOGI – HVORDAN OG HVORFOR?

3. Udgivelse af østnordiske middelaldertekster – et historisk tilbageblik

Britta Olrik Frederiksen

4. Vem är intresserad av östnordiska texter?

Ingela Hedström

5. Sten eller frugter? Hjælpemidler i studieudgaver af østnordiske tekster

Simon Skovgaard Boeck

6. Gammeldansk formidlet til den digitale tidsalder

Marita Akhøj Nielsen

7. Maskinell identifiering av skrivtecken i medeltida handskrifter ur ett språkvetenskapligt perspektiv

Lasse Mårtensson

II. HÅNDSKRIFTSSTUDIER

8. Stemmatologi och textförändring

Roger Andersson

9. Schacktavelslek och intertextuell dialog i AM 191 fol. och Cod. Holm. D 3

Massimiliano Bampi

10. En senmedeltida laghandskrift och dess förlaga, skrivare och ägare

Nils Dverstorp

III. TEKSTER, INTERTEKSTUALITET OG KULTURHISTORIE

11. Verbalis saepe translatio. Om de latinska citaten i Jöns Buddes skrifter

Mikko Kauko

12. Karlskrönikan och utvecklingen av det senmedeltida svenska litterära systemet

Fulvio Ferrari

13. Late Medieval Reading of Marian Sculptures from Swedish Parish Churches

Jonas Carlquist

14. Om att bryta gränser: Gudsordet på skandinaviska folkspråk från mission till reformation

Karl G. Johansson

15. Handskriftsvandringar: Ett projekt om senmedeltida text- och handskrifters transmission från syd till nord

Regina Jucknies

East Norse philology – the study of Old Danish, Old Swedish, and Old Gutnish – continues to attract scholarly attention from around the world. Beyond the Piraeus Lion comprises fourteen articles on a vast number of topics by researchers from Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, and the USA. They are based on a selection of the papers given at the Second International Conference for East Norse Philology held at Ca’Foscari University ofVenice in November 2015. The volume covers subjects ranging from codicology and material philology to text transmission and reception, from women’s literacy in medieval Sweden to studies of Old Danish lexicon, and from Bible translations to Old Swedish poetics. In all, there are five sections in the volume – Palaeography, Codicology, and Editing; Manuscript Studies; Vocabulary and Style; Literature and Writing; Bibles and Translations – that all demonstrate the breadth and vitality of East Norse philology. The book is the second volume published by Selskab for Østnordisk Filologi · Sällskap för östnordisk filologi, established in Uppsala in 2013.

This book explores the complexity of preaching as a phenomenon in the medieval Jewish-Christian encounter. This was not only an "encounter" as physical meeting or confrontation (such as the forced attendance of Jews at Christian sermons that took place across Europe), but also an "imaginary" or theological encounter in which Jews remained a figure from a distant constructed time and place who served only to underline and verify Christian teachings. Contributors also explore the Jewish response to Christian anti-Jewish preaching in their own preaching and religious instruction.

Contents:

1. Jonathan Adams and Jussi Hanska, Introduction: The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching

Part I: Regional Studies

2. Raúl González Salinero, Preaching and Jews in Late Antique and Visigothic Iberia

3. Regina D. Schiewer, Sub Iudaica Infirmitate — "Under the Jewish Weakness": Jews in Medieval German Sermons

4. Jonathan Adams, Preaching about an Absent Minority: Medieval Danish Sermons and Jews

Part II: Preachers and Occasions

5. Kati Ihnat, "Our Sister Is Little and Has No Breasts": Mary and the Jews in the Sermons of Honorius Augustodunensis

6. Filippo Sedda, The Anti-Jewish Sermons of John of Capistrano: Matters and Context

7. Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, The Effects of Bernardino da Feltre’s Preaching on the Jews

8. Jussi Hanska, Sermons on the Tenth Sunday After Holy Trinity: Another Occasion for Anti-Jewish Preaching

Part III: Symbols and Images

9. David I. Shyovitz, Beauty and the Bestiary: Animals, Wonder, and Polemic in Medieval Ashkenaz

10. Giacomo Todeschini, The Origin of a Medieval Anti-Jewish Stereotype: The Jews as Receivers of Stolen Goods (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries)

11. Pietro Delcorno, The Roles of Jews in the Florentine Sacre Rappresentazioni: Loyal Citizens, People to be Converted, Enemies of the Faith

12. Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Mendicants and Jews in Florence

13. Martine Boiteux, Preaching to the Jews in Early Modern Rome: Words and Images

Due to the scarcity of sources regarding actual Jewish and Muslim communities and settlements, there has until now been little work on either the perception of or encounters with Muslims and Jews in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. The volume provides the reader with the possibility to appreciate and understand the complexity of Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the medieval North. The contributions cover topics such as cultural and economic exchange between Christians and members of other religions; evidence of actual Jews and Muslims in the Baltic Rim; images and stereotypes of the Other.

The volume thus presents a previously neglected field of research that will help nuance the overall picture of interreligious relations in medieval Europe.

Contents

Introduction

1. Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Heß: Encounters and Fantasies: Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North

I. Contact

2. Bjørn Bandlien: Trading with Muslims and the Sámi in Medieval Norway

3. Christian Etheridge: The Evidence for Islamic Scientific Works in Medieval Iceland

4. Kay Peter Jankrift: Fire-Worshipping Magicians of the North: Muslim Perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen

5. Stefan Schröder: The Encounter with Islam Between Doctrinal Image and Life Writing: Ambrosius Zeebout’s Report of Joos van Ghistele’s Travels to the East 1481–1485

II. Settlement

6. Cordelia Heß: Jews and the Black Death in Fourteenth-Century Prussia: A Search for Traces

7. Michalina Duda: Jewish Physicians in the Teutonic Order’s Prussian State in the Late Middle Ages

8. Krzysztof Kwiatkowski: The Muslim People of Desht-i Qipchaq in Fifteenth-Century Prussia

9. Veronika Klimova: Karaite Settlement in Medieval Lithuania

III. Images and Stereotypes: Scandinavia

10. Yvonne Friedman: Christian Hatred of the Other: Theological Rhetoric vs. Political

Reality

11. Jonathan Adams: The Life of the Prophet Muḥammad in East Norse

12. Richard Cole: Kyn / Fólk / Þjóð / Ætt: Proto-Racial Thinking and its Application to Jews in Old Norse Literature

IV. Images and Stereotypes: Baltic Region

13. Sarit Cofman-Simhon: Missionary Theatre on the Baltic Frontier: Negotiating the Imagined Jew in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum

14. Elina Räsänen: Advocating, Converting, and Torturing: Images of Jews (and Muslimized Pagans) in the Kalanti Altarpiece

15. Shlomo Lotan: The Teutonic Knights and their Attitude about Muslims: Saracens in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and in the Baltic Region

16. Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė: The Image of the Infidelis in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: A Comparison of the Trends in the Creation of Anti-Jewish and Anti-Muslim Stereotypes

17. Madis Maasing: Infidel Turks and Schismatic Russians in Late Medieval Livonia

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Contributors

A Note on Spelling and Referencing

Introduction

1 Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Heß

Jewish Life and Books under Scrutiny: Ethnography, Polemics, and Converts

I Life and campaigns

2 David H. Price

Johannes Pfefferkorn and Imperial Politics

3 Franz Posset

In Search of the Historical Pfefferkorn: The Missionary to the Jews, 1507–1508

4 Avner Shamir

Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Dual Form of the Confiscation Campaign

II Books and dissemination

5 Jan-Hendryk de Boer

Pfefferkorn’s Books or the Most Rational Man in the World

6 Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig

Synagoga Veritas? Johannes Pfefferkorn and his Synagogue Descriptions in the buchlijn der iuden beicht

7 Cordelia Heß

Jew-Hatred Sells? Anti-Jewish Print Production in the German Dialects

8 Jonathan Adams

“Thus shall Christian people know to punish them”: Translating Pfefferkorn into Danish

III Converts, ethnography, and polemics

9 Maria Diemling

Patronage, Representation, and Conversion: Victor von Carben (1423–1515) and his Social Networks

10 Stephen G. Burnett

Luther’s Chief Witness: Anthonius Margaritha’s Der gantz Jüdisch glaub (1530/1531)

11 Yaacov Deutsch

The Reception History of Ethnographic Literature about the Jews

12 Ryan W. Szpiech

From Convert to Convert: Two Opposed Trends in Late Medieval and Early Modern Anti-Jewish Polemic

13 Imanuel Clemens Schmidt

Revealing the Absurdity of Jewish Hopes: From Polemical Ethnography to Basnage’s L’Histoire des Juifs

14 Markéta Kabůrková

Tela Ignea Satanae: Christian Scholars and the Editing of Hebrew Polemical Literature

15 Avery Gosfield

Gratias post mensam in diebus festiuis cum cantico hebrayim: A New Look at an Early Sixteenth-Century Tzur Mishelo

Works Attributed to Johannes Pfefferkorn

Bibliography

Indices

This volume examines the various forms of contact between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe from 800 to 1350. It consists of twenty-five papers from international scholars specialising in archaeology, onomastics, literature, art history, epigraphy, religious history and linguistics. The volume is innovative in three respects: (i) in transcending conventional historical boundaries, by bringing together work on both the viking and medieval periods; (ii) by examining the ways in which mainland Europe influenced Scandinavia (e.g. kingship, law and social organisation; and classical and continental literary traditions); and (iii) by synthesising all the material for an English-language readership for the first time. The broader timespan of investigation illustrates the changing nature of contact and the gradual integration of Scandinavia into European society: by 1350 Scandinavia was no longer a heathen outpost on the periphery of the known world, but an integral part of Western Christendom. The cultural impact of mainland Europe on Scandinavia, frequently mediated through religious channels, although less dramatic, is shown to have had a more significant long-term impact than the earlier viking raids. The volume is structured around the following sections: Historical and Archaeological Evidence for [Scandinavian] Contact with the British Isles; Evidence for the Linguistic Impact of Scandinavian Settlement; Evidence for the Impact of Christianity on Scandinavia; Textual Evidence for Contact, Conflict, and Coexistence.

Medieval Sermon Studies (MSS) is published annually under the auspices of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society. This refereed journal features insightful articles on sermon studies and related areas; reviews; sermon transcriptions; and information about work in progress are also included. MSS is an essential resource not only for sermon specialists but also for researchers working in the field of religious culture, history, and literature. It has a world-wide circulation among eminent academics and institutional subscribers.

Editors: Jonathan Adams and Ralf Lützelschwab

CONTENTS

Society News

SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS

Un autographe retrouvé de Bernardin de Sienne L’Itinerarium anni

Sophie Delmas

ARTICLES

‘Beware of false prophets’: A Fragment of the Old Swedish Miracle Homily Book

Jonathan Adams

Dominican Dignitaries and Private Preaching at Papal Avignon Part I: The Sermon by Pierre de Palme (12 March 1340)

Blake Beattie

‘Christ and the soul are like Pyramus and Thisbe’: An Ovidian Story in Fifteenth-Century Sermons

Pietro Delcorno

Popular Preaching in the Thirteenth Century: Rhetoric in the Fight against Heresy

Jeannine Horowitz

REVIEWS

Yuichi Akae, A Mendicant Sermon Collection from Composition to Reception. The Novum opus dominicale of John Waldeby, OESA (Marjorie Burghart); Fabrizio Conti, Witchcraft, Superstition, and Observant Franciscan Preachers: Pastoral Approach and Intellectual Debate in Renaissance Milan (Pietro Delcorno); Regina D. Schiewer, Die Millstätter Predigten (Gisela Vollmann-Profe); Johannes Schütz, Hüter der Wirklichkeit. Der Dominikanerorden in der mittelalterlichen Gesellschaft Skandinaviens (Tore Nyberg); Siegfried Wenzel, Of Sins and Sermons (Ralf Lützelschwab)

Medieval Sermon Studies (MSS) is published annually under the auspices of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society. This refereed journal features insightful articles on sermon studies and related areas; reviews; sermon transcriptions; and information about work in progress are also included. MSS is an essential resource not only for sermon specialists but also for researchers working in the field of religious culture, history, and literature. It has a world-wide circulation among eminent academics and institutional subscribers.

Editors: Jonathan Adams and Ralf Lützelschwab

CONTENTS 

Editorial

Society News

Conference News

Articles:

Rêves et visions dans le Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum de Jean de San Gimignano; Franco Morenzoni

Girolamo Savonarola’s Critique of Astrology through the De doctrina Aristotelis; Lorenza Tromboni

Robert Rypon and the Creation of London, British Library, MS Harley 4894: A Master Preacher and his Sermon Collection; Holly Johnson

The Elephant In and Out of the Room: Remigio dei Girolami’s Responses to Charles de Valois; Teresa Rupp

The Critical Edition of the Medieval Waldensian Sermons; Andrea Giraudo

Reviews:

Jonathan Adams and Jussi Hanska, eds, The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching (Cordelia Heß); Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, The Cult of St Clare of Assisi in Early Modern Italy (Pietro Delcorno); Pietro Delcorno, Lazzaro e il ricco epulone. Metamorfosi di una parabola fra Quattro e Cinquecento (Jussi Hanska); Jean Longère, Iacobi de Vitriaco sermones vulgares vel ad status. Prologus, I–XXXVI (Marjorie Burghart); Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, From Words to Deeds. The Effectiveness of Preaching in the Late Middle Ages (Ralf Lützelschwab); Daniele Solvi, L’agiografia su Bernardino santo (1450–1460) (Pietro Delcorno).

Medieval Sermon Studies (MSS) is published annually under the auspices of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society. This refereed journal features insightful articles on sermon studies and related areas; reviews; sermon transcriptions; and information about work in progress are also included. MSS is an essential resource not only for sermon specialists but also for researchers working in the field of religious culture, history, and literature. It has a world-wide circulation among eminent academics and institutional subscribers.

CONTENTS

Editorial

Society News

Conference News

Articles:

Medieval Sermon Studies since The Sermon: A Deepening and Broadening Field; Anne Thayer

A Witness to the Early Reception of Bonaventure’s Collationes in Hexaemeron: Nicholas of Ockham’s Leccio at Oxford (c. 1286) — Introduction and Text; Joshua Benson

The Bildungsroman of an Anonymous Franciscan Preacher in Late Medieval Italy (Biblioteca Comunale di Foligno, MS C. 85); Yoko Kimura

Legal Frameworks in the Sermons of Caesarius of Arles; Igor Filippov

Reviews:

Alexander Andrée, ed. and trans., Christopherus Laurentii de Holmis, Sermones, Disputatio in vesperiis et Recommendatio in aula. Academic Sermons and Exercises from the University of Leipzig, 1435–1438 (Georg Strack); Claes Gejrot and Erika Kihlman, ed. and trans., Bero Magni de Ludosia, Sermones et Collationes. Sermons from the University of Vienna in the Mid-Fifteenth Century (Georg Strack); Timothy J. Johnson, Franciscans and Preaching: Every Miracle from the Beginning of the World Came about through Words (Neslihan Şenocak); Thom Mertens and others, eds, The Last Judgement in Medieval Preaching (Virginia Langum); Stephen Morrison, ed., A Late Fifteenth-Century Dominical Sermon Cycle Edited from Bodleian Library MS E Musaeo 180 and Other Manuscripts (Matti Peikola); Martha W. Driver and Veronica O’Mara, eds, Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell (Phyllis B. Roberts); Lorenza Tromboni, ed., Inter omnes Plato et Aristoteles: gli appunti filosofici di Girolamo Savonarola (Eleonora Lombardo)

Medieval Sermon Studies (MSS) is published annually under the auspices of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society. This refereed journal features insightful articles on sermon studies and related areas; reviews; sermon transcriptions; and information about work in progress are also included. MSS is an essential resource not only for sermon specialists but also for researchers working in the field of religious culture, history, and literature. It has a world-wide circulation among eminent academics and institutional subscribers.

CONTENTS

Society News

ARTICLES

Dominican Dignitaries and Private Preaching at Papal Avignon Part II:

The Sermon by Hugues de Vaucemain (14 April 1340)

Blake Beattie

Exegetical Traditions and the Artes Praedicandi in the Collationes de tempore

of Frater Petrus (Fourteenth Century)

Daniel Nodes

An Old Norse Adaptation of a Christmas Sermon by Honorius

Augustodunensis

Stephen Pelle

« L’argument vassalique » au service de la prédication des croisades

en Terre sainte (fin XII e – XIII e siècles)

Valentin L. Portnykh

Prêcher sur le prêche. La réflexion de Maurice de Sully sur l’importance

et la nature de la prédication

Beata Spieralska-Kasprzyk

REVIEWS

Bryan Deschamp, [Iohannis Soreth.] Expositio paraenetica in Regulam Carmelitarum (Johan Bergström-Allen); Elisabet Göransson, Gunilla Iversen, Barbara Crostini, Brian M. Jensen, Erika Kihlman, Eva Odelman, et Denis Searby, The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin: A Casebook (Marjorie Burghart); Filippo Sedda, Franciscus liturgicus: Editio fontium saeculi XIII, Marco Bartoli, Jacques Dalarun, Timothy J. Johnson and Filippo Sedda, Fonti liturgiche francescane: l’immagine di san Francesco d’Assisi nei testi liturgici del XIII secolo (Pietro Delcorno); Shari Boodts, Sancti Aurelii Augustini Sermones in epistolas Apostolicas II, id est Sermones CLVII–CLXXXIII secundum ordinem vulgatum, insertis etiam aliquot sermonibus post Maurinos repertis (Jérémy Delmulle); Richard J. Serina, Nicholas of Cusa’s Brixen Sermons and Late Medieval Church Reform (Donald F. Duclow); Patrick Gifreu, Saint Vincent Ferrier, Sermon sur la passion, Philip Daileader, Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life: Religion and Society in Late Medieval Europe (Alberto Ferreiro); Eleonora Lombardo, Models of Virtues: The Roles of Virtues in Sermons and Hagiography for New Saints’ Cult (13th to 15th Century) (Ralf Lützelschwab)

Medieval Sermon Studies (MSS) is published annually under the auspices of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society. This refereed journal features insightful articles on sermon studies and related areas; reviews; sermon transcriptions; and information about work in progress are also included. MSS is an essential resource not only for sermon specialists but also for researchers working in the field of religious culture, history, and literature. It has a world-wide circulation among eminent academics and institutional subscribers.

Medieval Sermon Studies (MSS) is published annually under the auspices of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society. This refereed journal features insightful articles on sermon studies and related areas; reviews; sermon transcriptions; and information about work in progress are also included. MSS is an essential resource not only for sermon specialists but also for researchers working in the field of religious culture, history, and literature. It has a world-wide circulation among eminent academics and institutional subscribers.

Medieval Sermon Studies (MSS) is published annually under the auspices of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society. This refereed journal features insightful articles on sermon studies and related areas; reviews; sermon transcriptions; and information about work in progress are also included. MSS is an essential resource not only for sermon specialists but also for researchers working in the field of religious culture, history, and literature. It has a world-wide circulation among eminent academics and institutional subscribers.

Fully revised 3rd edition. The textbook and grammar are bound as one volume. Entirely new chapter (Adams) on the pronunciation of Faroese.

Beginners' language course in Faroese (reading, conversations, vocabulary)

Beginners' language course in Faroese (grammar)

The project ‘The Norse Perception of the World’ is building a digital infrastructure to facilitate interdisciplinary research on medieval worldviews as recorded in East Norse texts. It does so by collecting spatial material, i.e. attestations of place names and other location-based data from medieval vernacular manuscripts, early prints, and runic inscriptions from fictional, non-biblical, and scientific texts dated to before 1530, and providing free access to these spatial references through a tailored back-end MySQL database and an interactive end-user interface with mapping via Leaflet and Leaflet.markercluster. This paper discusses how geocoding can be problematic when applied to pre-modern materials, as the concept of space is a temporal and social variable, especially when dealing with ideas about places abroad. The geospatial visualization employed by the project has no ambition to represent a historically correct worldview as understood by medieval Scandinavians. Rather, it is an anachronistic tool for managing and obtaining an overview of the spatial references in East Norse texts.

Katalogbog udgivet i forbindelse med den første udstilling i Det Kongelige Biblioteks nye udstillingssal, Montanasalen. Emnet for udstillingen er ældre tiders danske brugsbøger, skillingstryk, romaner m.m. Udstillingen tager udgangspunkt i et citat af en engelsk biblioteksmand: ’The dust of one age is the gold of another, som ofte anvendes, når talen falder på bevaring af kulturarven verden over. Citatet udtrykker, at det, der i samtiden kan forekomme værdiløst og ligegyldigt – f.eks. en reklamebrochure – kan få stor betydning som kulturhistorisk kilde for senere generationer.

Katalogbogen, der bærer samme navn som udstillingen, indeholder, foruden en indledning til emnet om ”De oversete bøger” af Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, 4 artikler som forholder sig til nogle af udstillingens emner:  - Charlotte Appel: Når det almindelige bliver sjældent – om abc’en og andre skolebøger  - Henrik Horstbøll: Kunsten at dø – ars moriendi  - Jens Henrik Koudal: Musikere, amatører og en ny type dansksprogede lærebøger  - Michael Harbsmeier: Et grønlandsk spejl. 

Katalogbogen kan læses uafhængigt af udstillingen og kan således ses som et supplement til et besøg i den nye sal. 

Katalogbogen har dansk/engelsk paralleltekst.