Continuity and Change: The Harvest of Late-Medieval and Reformation History: Essays Presented to Heiko A. Oberman on His 70th Birthday. Robert J. Bast , Andrew C. Gow
use for their preachments, e.g., sermo, praedicatio, homilia, oratio, contio, or even lectio. Second, in many parts of Europe by the early decades of the seventeenth century preaching according to "conceits" {concetti) was, though controversial, much in vogue. It is a subject not much treated in Anglophone studies outside strictly literary circles, but it is an important one. Third, the claim made for originality for certain Protestant reformers in that they "preached" on a daily basis from a continuous text of Scripture (e.g., John's Gospel) needs to be examined against the latemedieval practice of "sacred lectures," which did the same thing. JOHN W. O'MALLEY Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA