Preaching in the Age of Chaucer : Selected Sermons in Translation

"Introducing modern readers to the riches of preaching in later medieval England, distinguished scholar Siegfried Wenzel offers translations of twenty-five Latin sermons written between 1350 and 1450. These carefully selected and previously untranslated sermons demonstrate how preachers constructed them and shaped them to their own purpose. The sermons provide representative examples of preaching through the Church year from Advent to the Sundays after Easter; also included are sermons for saints and pieces preached on such special occasions as funerals, convocations, visitations, professions, and academic lectures."--BOOK JACKET.

Siegfried Wenzel is a long-time professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.