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Chaucer on Preachers and Preaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Coolidge Otis Chapman
Coolidge Otis Chapman*
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Williams College
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Elsewhere I have undertaken to show that the sermons of Chaucer's Pardoner and Parson conform to the practice of the mediaeval pulpit. It remains to examine Chaucer's utterances regarding preachers and preaching, in order to determine the full extent of his knowledge of the ars praedicandi. I shall treat the passages regarding the methods of sermon making, the times and places of preaching, the conduct of the preacher in the pulpit, and finally the audience.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 44 , Issue 1: American Bibliography for 1928 , March 1929 , pp. 178 - 185
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1929

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References

Note 1 in page 178 “The Pardoner's Tale: A Mediaeval Sermon,” M.L.N. XLI., 506-9; “The Parson's Tale: A Mediaeval Sermon,” M.L.N. XLIII., 229-34.

Note 2 in page 178 Pard. Prol., C. 333, 34.

Note 3 in page 178 D. 2005, 06

Note 4 in page 179 D. 2086-88.

Note 5 in page 179 D. 1207-10.

Note 6 in page 179 Friar's Prol., D. 1274-77.

Note 7 in page 179 Shipman's Prol., B. 1168, 69.

Note 8 in page 179 D. 1818, 19.

Note 9 in page 180 D. 2107-10.

Note 10 in page 180 C. 391-4, 435-8.

Note 11 in page 181 Select Eng. Works, ed T. Arnold, III, 180.

Note 12 in page 181 D. 1793, 94.

Note 13 in page 181 Shipman's Prol., B. 1178-80.

Note 14 in page 182 D. 1715-18.

Note 15 in page 182 D. 1724-34.

Note 16 in page 182 Skeat quotes the complete formula from Morris's Old English Homilies (EETS. Or. Ser. 53, p. 115). “Qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivit et regnat per omnia secula seculorum,” occurring at the conclusion of a sermon.

Note 17 in page 182 Preaching in Medieval England, Camb., 1926, pp. 146, 47.

Note 18 in page 183 Wife's Prol., D. 550, 555-58.

Note 19 in page 183 D. 1788, 89.

Note 20 in page 183 See Owst, op. cit., pp. 144, 45; and his Appendix 1.

Note 21 in page 183 Prol., A. 709-14.

Note 22 in page 183 A Late Medieval Tractate on Preaching, trans. by Harry Caplan, in Studies in Rhetoric and Public Speaking in Honor of James A. Winans, New York, 1926, pp. 86, 87.

Note 23 in page 184 Pard Prol., C. 329-31,395-97.

Note 24 in page 184 Prol., A. 527, 28.

Note 25 in page 184 Cf. topics on which St. Cecilia preached to Tiburtius, Second Nun's Tale, G. 342-48:

Tho gan she him ful bisily to preche

Of Cristes come and of his peynes teche,

And many pointes of his passioun;

How goddes sone in this world was withholde,

To doon mankinde pleyn remissioun,

That was y-bounde in sinne and cares colde:

Al this thing she unto Tiburce tolde.

Note 25 in page 185 B. 2233-35.