The Medieval Church · c. 1425–1444
The Sermons
Bernardino of Siena · 1380–1444
What it is
Sermons preached in town squares for hours at a stretch and taken down verbatim by listeners — on usury, on gossip, on family life, on the holy name of Jesus.
Why it lasted
The best record of what late medieval preaching actually sounded like, though the same campaigns also incited attacks on Jews and on those accused of sodomy.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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