Siegfried Wenzel, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania, has written widely on medieval vices and virtues as well as on Chaucer, Langland, and many aspects of Middle English literature. Having been a Guggenheim Fellow twice and recipient of fellowships from ACLS and NEH, he has edited several Latin texts with translations, including a Franciscan handbook of preaching material, and has published Preachers, Poets,and the Early English Lyric (Princeton, 1986) and Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late Medieval England (Ann Arbor, MI, 1994). In 2005 Cambridge University Press published his Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England: Orthodox Preaching in the Age of Wyclif, which surveys preaching and Latin sermon collections made in England between c. 1350 and c. 1450 and contains inventories of these collections. He retired on July 1, 1997, and now lives in Chapel Hill, NC. E-mail address: <swenzel@email.unc.edu>.
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