Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The founder saints and the crusades
- 2 Pope Gregory IX and the early friars
- 3 Papal crusade propaganda and the friars
- 4 The organization of the preaching of the cross in the provinces of the mendicant orders
- 5 Friars, crusade sermons, and preaching aids
- 6 The friars and the financing of the crusades
- 7 The friars and the redemption of crusade vows
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The crusade against the Drenther and the Establishment of the Dominican Inquisition in Germany
- Appendix 2 A list of thirteenth century sermons and exempla for the recruitment of crusaders
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought
5 - Friars, crusade sermons, and preaching aids
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The founder saints and the crusades
- 2 Pope Gregory IX and the early friars
- 3 Papal crusade propaganda and the friars
- 4 The organization of the preaching of the cross in the provinces of the mendicant orders
- 5 Friars, crusade sermons, and preaching aids
- 6 The friars and the financing of the crusades
- 7 The friars and the redemption of crusade vows
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The crusade against the Drenther and the Establishment of the Dominican Inquisition in Germany
- Appendix 2 A list of thirteenth century sermons and exempla for the recruitment of crusaders
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought
Summary
Despite the fact that there is ample evidence to illustrate that the friars preached the cross, it has not been recorded what they actually said in their sermons. Medieval chroniclers rarely wrote about the preaching in detail, that is the contents of crusade sermons, their audiences and context. This is not to say that there is no information at all, but it exclusively relates to the preaching of prominent secular clerics. From the late twelfth and the early thirteenth century, there are the sermons of Bishop Henry of Strasbourg and Martin of Pairis, preached at Strasbourg in 1188 and Basel in 1201 respectively, which the chroniclers claimed to report more or less verbatim. Then there are the descriptions of Baldwin of Canterbury's tour of Wales in 1188, of Eustace of Flay's preaching in England in 1200–1, and of the activities of Oliver of Cologne in Frisia prior to the Fifth Crusade. All of these contain more or less detailed information about the actual crusade sermons. In addition, there are snippets of information about Pope Innocent Ill's preaching in Italy in 1216. For later in the thirteenth century, when the friars were preaching the crusade, the only substantial surviving evidence also concerns the preaching of two secular crusade preachers, both papal legates in northern Italy, who preached the cross against the Romano brothers in the later 1250s.
There are, of course, a number of preaching aids from the thirteenth century, notably model sermons and exempla, which were concerned with the preaching of the cross. Crusade model sermons first appeared in sermon collections at the beginning of the thirteenth century.
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- Preaching the CrusadesMendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century, pp. 111 - 122Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994