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BERTOLD VON REGENSBURG (c. 1220-1272)

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BERTOLD VON See also:REGENSBURG (c. 1220-1272)  , the greatest See also:German preacher of the later See also:middle ages, was a native of See also:Regensburg, and entered the Franciscan monastery there . From about 1250 onwards his fame as a preacher spread over all the German-speaking parts of the See also:continent of See also:Europe . He wandered from See also:village to village and See also:town to town, See also:preaching to enormous audiences, always in the open See also:air; the earnestness and straight-forward eloquence with which he insisted that true repentance came from the See also:heart, that pious pilgrimages and the See also:absolution of the See also:Church were See also:mere outward symbols, appealed to all classes . He died in Regensburg on the 13th of See also:December 1272 . His German sermons, of which seventy-one have been preserved, are among the most powerful in the See also:language, and See also:form the See also:chief monuments of Middle High German See also:prose . His See also:style is clear, See also:direct and remarkably See also:free from cumbrous Latin constructions; he employed, whenever he could, the pithy and homely sayings of the peasants, and is not reluctant to point his moral with a rough See also:humour . As a thinker, he shows little sympathy with that See also:strain of See also:medieval See also:mysticism which is to be observed in all the See also:poetry of his contemporaries . The best edition of BertoId's German sermons is that by F . See also:Pfeiffer and J . Strobl (2 vols., 1862–188o; reprinted, 1906) ; there is also a See also:modern German version by F . See also:Gobel (4th ed., 1906) . The Latin sermons were edited by G .

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Jakob (188o) . See C.W . Stromberger, See also:Bertold von Regensburg, der grosste Volksredner See also:des deutschen Mittelalters (1877), K . Unkel, Bertold von Regensburg (1882), and E . See also:Bernhardt, Bruder Bertold von Regensburg (1905); A . E . Schonbach, Studien zur Geschichte der altdeutschen Predigt (Publications of the See also:Vienna See also:Academy, 1906) .

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