The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The series publishes high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism.

This study examines the function of allegorism in a total of 63 Romance language sermons from six 12 th and 13 th century sermon collections. A cognitive-semantic analysis of 250 individual allegories shows the ways that the authors of these sermons found opportunities for interpretative creativity within highly conventional patterns of interpretation.

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Mirjam Sigmund, Universität Trier.