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Collections of Exempla helped Medieval preachers to adorn their Sermon s, to emphasize moral conclusions or illustrate a point of doctrine. The subject matter could be taken from Fable s, Folktale s, Legend s or real history. Jacques De Vitry 's book of exempla, c. 1200, was one of the most famous collections. Geoffrey Chaucer 's '' The Miller's Prologue And Tale '' became a vivid satire on these collections and the abuse they found wherever they were just brought into monotonous Litanies . |
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