Dominican Dignitaries and Private Preaching at Papal Avignon Part II: The Sermon by Hugues de Vaucemain (14 April 1340)

Abstract

ABSTRACT The survival of two sermons, both by Dominican dignitaries, both delivered in the private chapel of Cardinal Pierre de Prés during the Lenten cycle of 1340, and both preserved in the same manuscript, provides a rare opportunity to explore the phenomenon of private preaching at the Avignonese curia. In the first of a three-part series, I presented the sermon by the Dominican Provincial Prior of France, Pierre de Palme; in this, the second part, I present the text of the sermon by the Master-General, Hugues de Vaucemain; analysis and observations will come in the third and final part.