Based on author's Thesis (Ph. D.) Michigan State University, 1991. / A collection of 60 homilies from the anonymous Middle English translation of Robert de Gretham's Anglo-Norman Miroir, or Les évangiles des domnées. Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-558) and index. Also issued in print.

Based on author's Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University, 1991. / A collection of 60 homilies from the anonymous Middle English translation of Robert de Gretham's Anglo-Norman Miroir, or Les évangiles des domnées. Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-558) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-181). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Issued also as thesis, Munich. / Bibliography: p. [159]-164.

Not available / text

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1907. / Bibliography: p. [243]-244.

The editor's Thesis--Cambridge. / "Ung tres devot sermon du Saint Sacrement de l'autel par Robert Ciboule": p. [39]-68. Bibliography: p. [91]-92.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1907. / Bibliography: p. [243]-244.

This thesis on medieval sermon manuscripts aims to increase our understanding of the Franciscan Berthold von Regensburg, who is considered to be the most significant German preacher of the late Middle Ages. For this reason, I have selected twenty-one Latin and six German codices, dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. These codices have been analyzed to identify the writing material, internal structure and paratextual features. The underlying idea is that the codicological and paratextual organisation delivers insight not only into the date and provenance of the manuscripts, but also into their function and actual use. I set out, in my first chapter, with some general thoughts about the specific process of communication involved in sermon manuscripts. The focus of my second chapter is on the structural and guiding elements in manuscripts, such as indices, numbering systems and various types of rubrication. The third chapter is concerned with marginal annotations, which can refer to the content of the text, call for attention, or even aim to deter from reading or copying a particular passage. In chapter four, I discuss a number of current issues in codicology and the complexity of codicological structures, which leads me to the proposition of a new concept of ‘corresponding codicological units’. In the fifth chapter, I argue that the attribution of Berthold’s sermons to his name fades in the late-thirteenth century, in favour of the term Rusticanus, which fills the position of the author for the the most part of the fourteenth century. In my final chapter, I discuss different concepts of book ownership. By demonstrating the significance of material and structural features, I show the strength of a codicological approach in achieving a new, in-depth understanding of Berthold von Regensburg and medieval sermon culture in general.