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Liudprand of Cremona, Preacher and Homilist*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2016
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In the history of medieval Bible studies the tenth century in Beryl Smalley’s own words brought a sudden interruption, a dramatic pause, and any reader of her magnum opus must come away with the strong impression of a hiatus between the Carolingian commentators and the great teachers of the eleventh century, Fulbert of Chartres, Berengar of Tours, Drogo of Paris, and Lanfranc. Strangely enough she did not mention Atto of Vercelli’s elaborate and weighty Expositio in Epistolas S. Pauli, written not long after 940, which at least continued and used the massive labours of the ninth-century scholars.
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In presenting this study in memory of Beryl Smalley I have ventured on what was in part new ground for me. I am very grateful to Professor Bernhard Bischoff for letting me have an advance copy of his edition of Liudprand’s sermon. My indebtedness to his apparatus criticus will be obvious and is gladly acknowledged. I should like to thank no less Sir Richard Southern, Alexander Murray, and Henrietta and Conrad Leyser for their suggestions, advice, and encouragement.
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2 Sancti Odonis Abbatis Cluniacensis secundi Opera Omnia, Sermo ii, PL cxxxiii, 721. On Carolingian sermons and homilies see McKitterick, R., The Frankish Church and Carolingian Reforms, 789-895, RHS (London, 1977).Google Scholar
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5 Widukindi Monachi Corbeiensis Rerum Gestarum Saxonicarum Libri Tres, III, 15, ed. P. Hirsch and J.E. Lohmann, MGH SRG, (Hanover, 1935), p. 112.
6 Gerhardi Vita S. Ouldalrici Episcopi, chs. 4, 6, MGH SS, IV, pp. 391, 394.
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8 Thietmar, Chronicon, III, 1, pp. 96-8. For Thietmar’s own preaching see ibid., VI, 70, p. 360.
9 Othloni Vita Sancti Wolfgangi Episcopi, c. 19, MGH SS, IV, p. 535.
10 Lantberti Vita Sancti Heriberti Archiepiscopi, c.9, MGH SS, IV, p. 747.
11 See MGH SS, XV, 2, pp. 742-3, 746-8.
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19 On Christian-Jewish relations and exchanges in the tenth century see Blumenkranz, B., Juifs et Chrétiens dans le monde occidental 430-1096 = Etudes juives, ii, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris and The Hague, 1960)Google Scholar. For a debate between Church and Synagogue, which the author dates in the middle of the tenth century, see his Les auteurs Chrétiens latins du moyen âge sur les juifs et le judaïsme = Etudes juives, iv (Paris and The Hague, 1963), no. 188. See also Lotter, F., ‘Zu den Anfangen deutsch-jüdischer Symbiose in frühottonischer Zeit’, Archiv für Kul-turgeschichte, 1v (1973), pp. 1–34Google Scholar, and esp. now Wallace-Hadrill, J.M., The Frankish Church (Oxford, 1983), pp. 390–403.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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22 Ibid., pp. 25-6.
23 Ibid., p. 26, lines 67-9.
24 Ibid., p. 26, lines 85-90.
25 Ibid., pp. 26-7, lines 95-106.
26 Ibid., p. 22.
27 Ibid., p. 28, lines 161-3.
28 Ibid., p. 30, lines 204-6.
29 Ibid., p. 30, lines 215-23.
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32 ‘Osterpredigt’, p. 30, lines 204-5.
33 Ibid., ‘…ad mortis tenebras in quibus se iuste humanum genus gloriabatur habere … ab immortalis et iusti Dei potentia iuste perderet, quod se iuste possedisse confideret’.
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Ibid., pp. 30-1, line 233: 
35 Ibid., p. 32, lines 270-1.
36 Ibid., p. 32, lines 293-5.
37 Ibid., p. 33, lines 307-10.
38 Ibid., p. 33, lines 318-27.
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50 On Liudprand’s encounter with Recemund see Becker’s Introduction, Werke, pp. viii-ix. For ‘utilis comoediarum risus’ see Antapodosis, I, 1, p. 4, and see Beumann, Wissenschaft, p. 24.
51 ‘Osterpredigt’, pp. 22, 28, line 162; Antapodosis, III, 47, p. 99, further IV, 12, p. m and also IV, p. 120, an important example, not indexed.
52 Antapodosis, II, 46, p. 58.
53 Anapodosis, IV, 24, pp. 117-18, Widukind, Res Gestae Saxonicae, II, 17, pp. 82-3, and see Köpke, R. and Dümmler, E., Kaiser Otto der Groβe, Jahrbücher der Deutschen Geschichte (Leipzig, 1876), pp. 82–4Google Scholar and Hauck, ‘Erzbischof Adalbert’, p. 304.
54 Antapodosis, IV, 26, pp. 120-2. On the medieval interpretation of John, xx. 24-9 and its history see Pflugk, U., ‘Die Geschichte vom ungläubigen Thomas (Johannes 20, 24-29) in der Auslegung der Kirche von den Anfängen bis zur Mitte des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts’ (unpub. dissertation, Hamburg, 1965), esp. pp. 116, 126, 141Google Scholar. He does not comment on Liudprand’s use of the story, though, and leaves a notable gap between the ninth and the twelfth century in his survey. I am greatly indebted to Alexander Murray for enabling me to read this work.
55 Antapodosis, IV, 28, p. 123 and cf. Einhardi Vita Karoli Magni, chs. 7, 8, 6th ed. O. Holder-Egger, MGH SRG (Hanover and Leipzig, 1911), pp. 10-11.
56 Antapodosis, IV, 27, 28, pp. 122-4.
57 Ibid., IV, 29, pp. 124-5.
58 Ibid., VI, 10, p. 158.