Venje und discipline: Dominikanisches Wort- und Gedankengut in einigen St. Georgener Predigten

The combination of the terms venje and discipline in three sermons of the St. George collection suggests a primarily Dominican readership and/or audience, at least for these sermons. The date ‘about 1300 after Christ’ in a sermon which belongs also to this group leads to the conclusion that the whole collection was put together in the beginning of the 14th century at the earliest. The warning in two of these sermons against a too radical mortification could be aimed primarily at nuns in convents which cultivated a very severe asceticism such as Unterlinden and Oetenbach in the southern Rhine region