Johann Herolt

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Johann Herolt, also known as Discipulus (died August 1468) was a Dominican preacher. Herolt has been described as "the most prolific, skillful, and honored writer of sermon books in fifteenth-century Europe". [1] He was "one of the leading figures of a new Dominican spirituality in fifteenth-century Germany which emphasized the practical goals of pastoral work over mystical study". [2]

As lector and prior of the Dominican monastery in Nuremberg, Herolt was a colleague of Johannes Nider. Herolt was also vicar of Nuremberg's Dominican convent, the cloister of St Katharine, which he and Nider reformed in 1428, appointing Gertrud Gwichtmacherin as prioress. [3] He was prior at Nuremberg from 1437 to 1443. [1]

Herolt's Sermones discipuli de tempore et de sanctis was the most widely reprinted sermon collection of the fifteenth century. [4] Herolt collected exemplary stories for use in sermons, and these story collections - one thematic, one of miracles of the Virgin Mary, and one of miracles of the saints - also circulated in manuscript and were widely reprinted as Promptuaria exemplorum.

Herolt's Advent, Christmas and New Year sermons to the Nuremberg convent in 1436 - his only work in the German vernacular, Der Rosengart - have recently been translated and published. [3]

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  1. 1 2 Ian D. Siggins (2009). A Harvest of Medieval Preaching: The Sermon Books of Johann Herolt, Op (Discipulus). Xlibris Corporation. pp. 1–13. ISBN   978-1-4628-2607-0 . Retrieved 10 May 2013.[ self-published source ]
  2. Richard Newhauser (1989). "From Treatise to Sermon: Johannes Herolt on the novem peccata aliena". In Amos, Thomas Leslie; Green, Eugene A. (eds.). De Ore Domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages. Medieval Institute Publ. pp. 185–. ISBN   978-0-918720-28-3 . Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  3. 1 2 Ian D. K. Siggins (2012). The Rose Garden: Sermons on the Monastic Virtues by Johann Herolt Op (~1390-1468). Trafford Publishing. p. vii. ISBN   978-1-4669-6323-8 . Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  4. Thayer, Anne (2008), "Learning to Worship in the Later Middle Ages: Enacting Symbolism, Fighting the Devil, and Receiving Grace", Archive for Reformation History, 99: 39