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Index Aaron, 23-24-, r83n.56 absolute absence, 27-30, r8sn.72, rss-86nn.75-76, r86n.so access and tbe vernacular: and the abstract vs. tbe particular, 66, 202n.37; and charismatic preachers, 58-59; English debates about, 57, 198n.3; exempla/similitudes, as common ground, 57, 62-66, 199-2oon.I9, 2oo-2omn.25-26, 20In.31, 202nn.36-37; and holy simplicity, 68, 203n.49; Latin vs. the vernacular, 57, 59-62, 63-64, 198n.2, 199n.9, 201n.31, 204n.62; the preacher as bridge, 58-62, 199nn.9-I0, 199n.12, 199nn.14-15; tbe preacher as common man, 66-72, 203nn.40-41, 203n.44, 203n.48, 203n.so, 204n.s7, 204n.59; the preacher as translator, 58, 59-60, 198n.s; preacher vs. audience, 10; preaching manuals on, 57-58; translation, problems of, 198n.r; vernacularity vs. popularity, 58, 198n.4; vernacular songs in sermons, 200n.23; worldly speech vs. vernacular, 66-67, 202n.40 acting, 44--45, 49-50, 195n.82 Adam, 38 ad status sermons. See sermones ad status Aeneid (Homer), 79-80 Aers, David, 8, 69 Agnes, Saint, 104-5, 216n.39, 217n.49 Alan of Lille, ix, 49, 78, 173n.rs, 210n.66; Summa de arte praedicatoria, 45-47, 86-88, 193n.69 Alcuin, 205n.10 Alexander ofAshby, 24-, 25, r83n.s8; De artificioso modo predicandi, 88-90, 92 Ambrose, Saint, 242n.67 Ambrose of Milan, 218n.s8 Anastasia, Saint, 105 Andrew, Saint, 107 Anna, 179n.23, 228n.sr anticlericalism, 155-56, 157-58, 24onn.s5-56, 24o-4m.ss, 24mn.6o-62 antifeminist tradition, 155-56, 157-58, 165, 24onn.ss-s6, 241n.62, 242n.68, 246n.I07 apostolic succession, rS, 179n.21 Aquinas, Thomas: on abbesses' roles, r82n.49; on Christ as represented by women, 132, 133, 229n.57; on the Epistle to Timothy, 30, r86n.83; on grace of speech, 199n.rs; on Jesus' doctrine and unworthy preachers, 25-26; on ordination, 227fi.37; on prophecy, 22, 23, r82n.44, r86n.Sr; on public instruction by women, 30, r86n.83; on the Virgin Mary, 232n.86; on women's persuasiveness, 100 d'Ardenne, S. R. T. 0., 218n.ss Ariald, 59 Aristotle, 75, 90, 227n.37 Arnulf, 59 Ars componendi sermones (Higden), 90-91, 93, 212n.92 Ars concionandi, 89 art/decoration, 76-78, 87 artes praedicandi (handbooks for preachers), 1-2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 175-76n.31; origins of, 211n.82; on persona, 35; on tbe preacher's body, 34, 35; on the preacher's self-interest, 39, 43; on rhetoric, 74, 84-92, 93, 95, 210n.66, 211n.76, 211n.79; on simplicity, so. See also specific texts asceticism, 75-76 audiences. See access and the vernacular; Canterbury Tales 272 Index Augustine, Saint: on the Aeneid, 79-80; on chastity, ros-6, 217n.47; on Christ as exemplar, 40; citation of, 15; Confessions, 28, 79, 207n.37, 209n.64; De doctrina christiana, 28, 75---76, 8o--84, 96, roo, 209n.55, 209n.61, 213n.1, 217n.49; on duplicity in preaching, 192n.62; on eloquence/decorum, 84, 94, 95, roo, ro8---9; on eloquence vs. wisdom, 217n.49; on Faustus, 208n.43; on monism, 217-18n.52; on old wives' tales, 242n.68; on pagan erudition, 81, 207n.35; on rhetoric, 74, 75---76, 78-84, 85, 88-90, 91, 207n.34, 207n.37, 209n.ss, 209n.61; on suauitas, 214n.8; on truth, 45, so Austin, J. L., 14-15, 17, 28-30, 186n.78 authority: anxieties about, and mendicant orders, 199n.18; vs. authorization, 2-3 (see also citation); embodied, 48; and persona, 35-39, 190n.37. See also female authority authorizationaljjurisdictional issues, 4-6, 173nn.18-19. See also citation d'Avray, David L., 63, 2oon.19, 234n.8 Barnes, Timothy David, 78 Bayless, Martha, 238n.36 beauty, n2, n9. See also women preacher saints/virgin martyrs Beckwith, Sarah, 8, 190n.4o, 19In.50, 222n.7, 233n.97 Bernard ofClairvaux, Saint, 15, 24, 37, 47, 49, 59, 135, 230n.68 Bernard of Fontcaude, 98---99, 214n.14, 23In.80 Besserman, Lawrence, 247n.n7 Bible au Seigneur de Berze (Hugues de Berze), 152, 238n.34 La Bible Guiot (Guiot de Provins), 152 Birgitta of Sweden, 6, 24-25; apostolic role of, 134; authority of, 122-25, 134-38, 224n.16, 233n.99; clerical abuses/neglect criticized by, 125, 126-27, 225n.26; and male prophets, 229n.51, 230n.72; maternal imagery of, 124; on papacy's return from Avignon to Rome...
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