| Introduction | p. xiii |
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| Byzantine Preaching | p. 1 |
| Romanos the Melode (fl. ca. 540) | p. 7 |
| The Age of Justinian | p. 8 |
| The Conventionalizing of Preaching | p. 10 |
| Sermons for Easter | p. 11 |
| The Kontakion as Homiletical Poetry | p. 16 |
| John of Damascus (ca. 645-ca. 750) | p. 20 |
| The Confrontation with Islam | p. 20 |
| The Neoplatonizing of Christian Worship | p. 30 |
| Andrew of Crete (660-740) | p. 31 |
| Theodore of Studion (759-826) | p. 33 |
| Photius (810-95) | p. 35 |
| A Prophetic Preacher | p. 38 |
| Photius as Exegete | p. 42 |
| A Master of the Art of Oratory | p. 45 |
| A Theology of the Holy Spirit and a Theology of Worship | p. 46 |
| Theophylactus of Ochrid (ca. 1050-ca. 1108) | p. 52 |
| Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022) | p. 53 |
| A Pietist Approach to the Ministry of the Word | p. 55 |
| The Vision of God as Worship | p. 58 |
| The Byzantine Lectionary | p. 67 |
| The Mission to the Barbarians | p. 73 |
| The Mission in Gaul | p. 74 |
| Caesarius of Arles (ca. 470-542) | p. 74 |
| The Gallican Lectionary | p. 81 |
| The Mission in Spain | p. 95 |
| Martin of Braga (ca. 520-80) | p. 96 |
| Isidore of Seville (ca. 560-636) and the Mozarabic Lectionary | p. 99 |
| The Mission of the Celtic Church | p. 109 |
| Patrick | p. 110 |
| Columba (ca. 521-97) | p. 111 |
| Columbanus (ca. 543-615) | p. 114 |
| The Anglo-Saxon Mission | p. 118 |
| The Venerable Bede (673-735) | p. 120 |
| The Mission in Germany | p. 126 |
| Boniface (680-754) | p. 127 |
| Pirmin (ca. 700-753) | p. 137 |
| The Shaping of the Roman Lectionary | p. 143 |
| Leo the Great and the First Movements toward the Lectionary | p. 144 |
| The "Gelasian" Lectionaries | p. 153 |
| The Gregorian Lectionaries | p. 169 |
| The Benedictines | p. 185 |
| Charlemagne (ca. 742-814) | p. 188 |
| Alcuin (ca. 735-804) and the Lectionary | p. 191 |
| Paul the Deacon (ca. 720-ca. 800) and the Homiliary | p. 198 |
| Rabanus Maurus of Mainz (ca. 780-ca. 856) | p. 200 |
| Haimo of Auxerre (ca. 790-ca. 855) | p. 216 |
| Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Pres (ca. 870-ca. 940) | p. 218 |
| Peter Damian (1007-72) | p. 226 |
| Prophet of Asceticism | p. 228 |
| Sermons for Saints' Days | p. 229 |
| The Witness of the Martyrs | p. 235 |
| Julian of Vezelay (ca. 1080-ca. 1160) | p. 237 |
| Conclusion -- Why It All Went to Seed | p. 249 |
| The Cistercians | p. 253 |
| Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1151) | p. 256 |
| Preaching the Crusades | p. 256 |
| Bernard's Festal Preaching | p. 258 |
| Sermons on Psalm 91 | p. 269 |
| Sermons on the Song of Solomon | p. 271 |
| Bernard as Expositor | p. 275 |
| Guerric of Igny | p. 284 |
| Aelred of Rievaulx (1109-67) | p. 287 |
| Conclusion -- The Rebirth of Preaching | p. 289 |
| The Schools | p. 293 |
| Peter Abelard (1079-1142) | p. 299 |
| Richard of Saint Victor (ca. 1100-1173) | p. 306 |
| The Heavenly Concerns of the Gospel | p. 307 |
| Thematic Preaching | p. 308 |
| The Spiritual Sense | p. 314 |
| The Priest as Preacher | p. 319 |
| Maurice of Sully (ca. 1120-96) | p. 322 |
| Alan of Lille (d. 1202) | p. 329 |
| Jacques de Vitry (ca. 1170-1240) | p. 334 |
| Conclusion | p. 338 |
| Franciscan Preaching | p. 341 |
| Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) | p. 342 |
| Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) | p. 348 |
| The Revival in Padua | p. 350 |
| The Easter Gospel | p. 352 |
| Bonaventure (ca. 1217-74) | p. 356 |
| Festal Sermons | p. 358 |
| Sermons for Saints' Days | p. 362 |
| Sermons on the Gospel of John | p. 363 |
| Sermons on the Six Days of Creation | p. 365 |
| Berthold of Regensburg (ca. 1220-72) | p. 380 |
| The Dominicans | p. 387 |
| Dominic (ca. 1171-1221) | p. 388 |
| Guillaume de Peyraut (ca. 1190-1271) | p. 392 |
| The Summa of Moral Theology | p. 393 |
| Preaching as Moral Catechism | p. 394 |
| Humbert of Romans (1200-1277) | p. 398 |
| On the Formation of Preachers | p. 399 |
| The Growing Importance of the Occasional Sermon | p. 403 |
| Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225-74) | p. 408 |
| Sermons on the Creed | p. 410 |
| Sermon Illustrations | p. 432 |
| Authorities and Authority | p. 435 |
| Jacopo da Varagine (ca. 1230-98) | p. 437 |
| Conclusion | p. 439 |
| The German Mystics | p. 441 |
| Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260-1327) | p. 443 |
| Mysticism and Scripture | p. 444 |
| The Tropological Sense of Scripture | p. 447 |
| Mysticism and the Ministry of the Word | p. 449 |
| John Tauler (ca. 1300-1361) | p. 452 |
| The Czech Reform | p. 459 |
| Jan Milic (ca. 1325-74) | p. 461 |
| Matej z Janova (ca. 1355-93) | p. 466 |
| Jan Hus (ca. 1372-1415) | p. 468 |
| The Prophetic Tradition in the Late Middle Ages | p. 471 |
| The Postils of Hus | p. 473 |
| The Hermeneutic of Hus | p. 482 |
| Jan Zelivsky (ca. 1390-1422) | p. 486 |
| The Preaching of Nominalist Pietism | p. 491 |
| Jean Gerson (1363-1429) | p. 492 |
| Sermons at the Council of Constance | p. 494 |
| Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins | p. 498 |
| Good Friday Sermon for 1403 | p. 503 |
| Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471) | p. 504 |
| Devotio Moderna | p. 506 |
| Monasticism for Everyone | p. 518 |
| Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64) | p. 526 |
| Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445-1510) | p. 530 |
| The Ship of Fools | p. 532 |
| The Advent Sermons for 1495 | p. 533 |
| The Strasbourg Plenarium | p. 538 |
| Reform before the Reformation | p. 539 |
| Preaching in Italy at the Birth of the Renaissance | p. 545 |
| Bernardino da Siena (1380-1444) | p. 547 |
| The Florentine Revival of 1424 | p. 547 |
| The Sienese Revival of 1425 | p. 549 |
| The Padua Revival of 1443 | p. 563 |
| Giovanni da Capestrano (1386-1456) | p. 565 |
| Roberto Caracciolo (1425-95) | p. 566 |
| Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98) | p. 567 |
| The Prophetic Spirit | p. 569 |
| Prophet of the Christian Republic of Florence | p. 573 |
| The Preaching of the Canonical Prophets in Renaissance Italy | p. 576 |
| Preaching and Martyrdom | p. 601 |
| Bibliography | p. 605 |
| Index | p. 630 |
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