Maurice de Sully and the Mediaeval Vernacular Homily is C. A. Robson's 1952 critical study, published by Basil Blackwell in Oxford, of the sermon cycle attributed to Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris from 1160 to 1196 and the bishop under whom Notre-Dame de Paris was begun. Robson edits Maurice's French homilies from a Sens cathedral chapter manuscript and sets them against the wider manuscript tradition, inventorying dozens of surviving copies in French and in Middle English translation. Its strength is that it is a dedicated critical edition and study of exactly this sermon cycle and its author, resting on the manuscripts themselves rather than a secondary summary. Its limit is its age: it is a 1952 study, and a reader wanting the current state of the field on medieval vernacular preaching should also look to work published since. Minted 2026-08-09 to replace a citation of Maurice de Sully's biography and sermon corpus to a composite popular history source that never covered this material; confirmed against an academic journal review of the book and independent bibliographic listings agreeing on title, author, publisher, city and year.
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Tier one: C. A. Robson's 1952 critical study from Basil Blackwell, Oxford, editing Maurice de Sully's French homilies from a Sens cathedral chapter manuscript and resting on the manuscripts themselves. Its limit is its age, a 1952 study, so a reader wanting the current state of the field on medieval vernacular preaching should also look to work published since. NotesC. A. Robson, Maurice de Sully and the Mediaeval Vernacular Homily, with the Text of Maurice's French Homilies from a Sens Cathedral Chapter MS, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1952. A critical edition of Maurice de Sully's French sermon cycle with Robson's own study of its manuscript tradition, inventorying dozens of surviving French and Middle English witnesses.
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AuthorC. A. Robson
PublisherBasil Blackwell, Oxford
Publication Year1952
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Paris, Cities This source names Paris directly: "to Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris from 1160 to 1196 and the bishop under whom Notre-Dame de Paris was begun."
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