Henry Totting of Oyta: Three Sermons of a Late Medieval Intellectual (De passione Domini, De assumpcione beate Virginis Marie, De nativitate Iohannis Baptiste)
2016
Abstract
The book presents Henry Totting of Oyta (d. 1397), a late medieval intellectual who was active in Erfurt, Prague, Paris, and Vienna. In spite of the fact that he is a well-known figure, the majority of his works remain unedited in manuscripts.
The authors analyse and provide the first editions of three of his sermons: On the Passion, On the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and On the Nativity of John the Baptist. Totting wrote each of them at a different point in his career, for a different audience and in a diffe-rent style.
They contribute to our knowledge about late medieval devotion and illustrate the transformation of late medieval intellectual life in Central Europe.