Sermones
· Peter Damian (1007-1072)
· c. 1049-1072
· homily
Latin · domain: latin-tenth-eleventh · researched 2026-11-14
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
HOLLIS on 'Peter Damian sermons' returns twenty records: the critical edition 'Sancti Petri Damiani Sermones' (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 57, ed. Giovanni Lucchesi, 1983) with its lexicological instrumenta, an Italian 'Sermoni' (Città nuova, 2013-2015) and an Italian 'Il cammino verso la luce' (1987); the English records are studies such as 'Rhetoric in the monastic tradition' (2012), 'Franciscan Christology' (1980) and a Leclercq Festschrift (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Peter%20Damian%20sermons&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 20 records). A separate query shows the letter volumes of the Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, e.g. 'Peter Damian: letters 151-180' (2005) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Peter%20Damian%20letters&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 44 records), so the letters are translated while the sermons are not. Migne PL 144 prints the 'Sermones' at col. 504 (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecursu0144mign), and the standard account lists sermons among his surviving writings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Damian).
The sermons are one of the largest bodies of Peter Damian's writing with no English version, and they are where his rhetoric is least filtered by the letter form: preached at Fonte Avellana, in Rome and before the papal court, they carry the eremitical spirituality that shaped Gregory VII's circle. Since the letters are now in English in the Fathers of the Church series, the sermons are the single remaining hole in the Damian corpus.
Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072. "Il Cammino verso la luce." Padova : Edizioni Messaggero Padova, c1987. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990006407980203941
Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072 · 2013-2015 · ita, lat
Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072. "Sermoni." Roma : Città nuova : Congregatio Camaldulensis OSB, 2013-2015. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990146718200203941