![]() Gertrud,” in Colonia Romanica: Jahrbuch des Fördervereins Romanische Kirchen Köln e.V, 10/1–2 (1995): 1:173–76. Gertrud am Neumarkt (Cologne: dme-Verlag, 1983) See Jutta Prieur, Das Kölner Dominikanerinnenkloster St. See also Helen Leith Spencer, English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993). ![]() Owst, Literature and the Pulpit in Medieval England: A Neglected Chapter in the History of English Letters & of the English People (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933), p. ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Still more remarkable is that the image itself can be associated with a still more celebrated figure, none other than Hildegard of Bingen. Given the paucity of such passages in sermons of any kind, an extended description of a specific image from the hand of a celebrated preacher is in itself of extraordinary interest. Fully one-third of Tauler’s sermon is devoted to a detailed discussion of an image in the convent’s refectory. 3 Although the purpose of Tauler’s trip to Cologne is unknown, it surely had something to do with the city’s having been the seat of a Dominican Studium generale. At this time, Tauler, along with the rest of his community in Strasbourg, was just beginning a period of four years of exile in Basel as a result of an interdict imposed by Pope John XXII, who wished to punish Strasbourg’s inhabitants for their loyalty to the emperor, Ludwig der Bayer. The sermon in question was delivered by Johannes Tauler (ca. ![]() 2 Instead, I will consider perhaps the most remarkable instance of a German sermon that takes an identifiable image as its point of departure. In this essay, I have no intention of attempting a premature overview of so vast a subject, especially when so much of the relevant material remains unpublished. Owst noted, “The contribution of English pre-Reformation preaching to this subject of pictures and statuary of the saints is in its way an interesting little contribution to the slender literature of the times dealing with early English Art, hitherto strangely neglected.” 1 Seventy years later, the same could still be said, with no less emphasis, of German sermons of the pre-Reformation period. In his still unsurpassed study of English sermons of the later Middle Ages, published in 1933, G.R. ![]()
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