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Festial

Vol. 37 Three Sermons for ‘Nova Festa’, together with the ‘Hamus Caritatis’

Purchase this volume Edited from Caxton´s 1491 Edition of John Mirk´s ‘Festial’.  Susan Powell (ed.)  The ‘Festial’ is a collection of sermons de tempore and de sanctis compiled by the Austin canon, John Mirk, probably around the late 1380s. It circulated widely in manuscript, undergoing one recension and one significant revision, of which the Advent and Nativity sermons were edited… Read More »Vol. 37 Three Sermons for ‘Nova Festa’, together with the ‘Hamus Caritatis’

Vol. 13 The Advent and Nativity Sermons from a Fifteenth-Century Revision of John Mirk’s ‘Festial’

Purchase this volume Edition from MS Harley 2247, and MS Royal 18 B XXV Susan Powell (ed.) (1981) MSS Harley and Royal represent a late fifteenth-century homily collection consisting of a revised version of Mark’s Festial augmented with temporale sermons from other sources. The edition presents the first seven temporale sermons of the collection. Three of these are revised Festial… Read More »Vol. 13 The Advent and Nativity Sermons from a Fifteenth-Century Revision of John Mirk’s ‘Festial’

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