{"product_id":"fasciculus-morum-a-fourteenthcentury-preachers-handbook-9780271006420","title":"Fasciculus Morum: A Fourteenth-Century Preacher's Handbook","description":"\u003cp\u003eFasciculus Morum is a handbook for preachers  written in Latin in the very early fourteenth century by an English Franciscan friar. It has never been printed but is extant in twenty-eight manuscripts. The work gathers a large amount of material for preaching  including more than fifty short poems in English  and presents this material neatly arranged in the order of the seven deadly sins and their opposite remedial virtues. The book has attracted considerable interest among students of Middle English literature because of its verses  but beyond this it has proven to be of equally great interest because it furnishes a fine example of what popular preachers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries would present to their congregations - the religious and moral doctrine as well as the biblical material  authoritative quotations  similes  fables  stories  moral exegesis  and other devices with which they enriched their sermons. It is  in other words  a summa of what an English Everyman wou\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650400444469,"sku":"ByrdShop_0271006420","price":249.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780271006420.jpg?v=1781795590","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/fasciculus-morum-a-fourteenthcentury-preachers-handbook-9780271006420","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}