See also:

• BERTOLD (1442–1504)

BERTOLD VON See also:

• REGENSBURG (RATISBON)

REGENSBURG (c. 1220-1272)  , the greatest See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German preacher of the later See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages, was a native of See also:

• REGENSBURG (RATISBON)

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 (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . He wandered from See also:

• VILLAGE

village to village and See also:

• TOWN

town to town, See also:

• PREACHING (Fr. preecher, from Lat. praedicare, to proclaim)

preaching to enormous audiences, always in the open See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air; the earnestness and straight-forward eloquence with which he insisted that true repentance came from the See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart, that pious pilgrimages and the See also:

• ABSOLUTION (Lat. absolutio from absolvo, loosen, acquit)

absolution of the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church were See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere outward symbols, appealed to all classes . He died in Regensburg on the 13th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1272 . His German sermons, of which seventy-one have been preserved, are among the most powerful in the See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, and See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief monuments of Middle High German See also:

• PROSE

prose . His See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style is clear, See also:

• DIRECT

direct and remarkably See also:

• FREE

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 (Latin humor)

humour . As a thinker, he shows little sympathy with that See also:

• STRAIN (through O. Fr. straindre, estraindre, mod. i treindre, from Lat. stringere, to draw tight, related to stress, stretch, string, &c.)

strain of See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval See also:

• MYSTICISM (from Or. µuety, to shut the eyes; µuorrts, one initiated into the mysteries)

mysticism which is to be observed in all the See also:

• POETRY

poetry of his contemporaries . The best edition of BertoId's German sermons is that by F . See also:

• PFEIFFER
• PFEIFFER, FRANZ (1815—1868)

Pfeiffer and J . Strobl (2 vols., 1862–188o; reprinted, 1906) ; there is also a See also:

• MODERN

modern German version by F . See also:

• GOBEL, JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH (1727-1794)

Gobel (4th ed., 1906) . The Latin sermons were edited by G .

See also:

• JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

Jakob (188o) . See C.W . Stromberger, See also:

• BERTOLD (1442–1504)

Bertold von Regensburg, der grosste Volksredner See also:

• DES

des deutschen Mittelalters (1877), K . Unkel, Bertold von Regensburg (1882), and E . See also:

• BERNHARDT, SARAH (ROSINE BERNARD) (1845- )

Bernhardt, Bruder Bertold von Regensburg (1905); A . E . Schonbach, Studien zur Geschichte der altdeutschen Predigt (Publications of the See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, 1906) .