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See also: German preacher of the later See also: middle ages, was a native of See also: Regensburg, and entered the Franciscan monastery there
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From about 1250 onwards his fame as a preacher spread over all the German-speaking parts of the continent of See also: Europe
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He wandered from See also: village to village and See also: town to town, preaching to enormous audiences, always in the open 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 absolution of the See also: Church were
See also: mere outward symbols, appealed to all classes
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He died in Regensburg on the 13th of See also: December 1272
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His German sermons, of which seventy-one have been preserved, are among the most powerful in the language, and See also: form the chief monuments of Middle High German See also: prose
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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
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As a thinker, he shows little sympathy with that strain of See also: medieval mysticism which is to be observed in all the See also: poetry of his contemporaries
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The best edition of BertoId's German sermons is that by F
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See also: Pfeiffer and J
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Strobl (2 vols., 1862–188o; reprinted, 1906) ; there is also a See also: modern German version by F
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Gobel (4th ed., 1906)
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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
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Unkel, Bertold von Regensburg (1882), and E
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Bernhardt, Bruder Bertold von Regensburg (1905); A
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E
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Schonbach, Studien zur Geschichte der altdeutschen Predigt (Publications of the Vienna See also: Academy, 1906)
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