This is a repository copy of ‘Christ and the Soul are like Pyramus and Thisbe’: An Ovidian story in Fifteenth-Century sermons. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/106153/ Version: Accepted Version Article: Delcorno, P (2016) ‘Christ and the Soul are like Pyramus and Thisbe’: An Ovidian story in Fifteenth-Century sermons. Medieval Sermon Studies, 60 (1). pp. 37-61. ISSN 1366-0691 https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2016.1225386 This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Medieval Sermon Studies on 14th September 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13660691.2016.1225386. Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version - refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher’s website. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing
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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Pietro Delcorno C S P T An Ovidian Story in Fifteenth-Century Sermons Keywords Model sermons; Reception of Ovid; Allegorical interpretation; Passion of Christ; Incunabula Abstract The sophisticated ways in which several fifteenth-century preachers used Ovidian stories and their allegorical interpretations prove that late medieval sermons represent a promising but neglected area for classical reception studies.