Bishop Thomas Brunton and his Sermons

Forty years have elapsed since Cardinal Gasquet in his essay, ‘A Forgotten English Preacher,’ called attention to the important sermons of Thomas Brunton or de Brynton, one-time Benedictine monk of Norwich and bishop of Rochester from 1373 until 1389, and expressed regret that these sermons had not been published by any of the learned societies of England or been included in the Rolls Series of Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain. Interest in this ‘forgotten preacher’ has been revived during the last ten years by G. R. Owst in his monumental works on the sermon literature of Mediaeval England in which he has discussed at considerable length the sermons of Bishop Brunton and pointed out their historical and literary importance.