MEDIEVAL DOMINICAN SERMONS TO CHILDREN. WILLIAM OF TOURNAIS SERMONES AD PUEROS IN SCHOLIS (Sredniowieczne dominikanskie kazania do dzieci. Wilhelma z Tournai Sermones ad pueros in scholis)

The literature related to the problem of the child in the Middle Ages is quite extensive. The exception is the topic closely connected to the Dominican officium praedicationis, namely sermons to children. The author discusses two sermones ad pueros found in the thirteenth century treatise De instructione puerorum by the Dominican William of Tournai. The sermons are typical model sermons (sermones moderni), the purpose of which was to supply Dominican preachers with schemas and proposals of sermons which were said by them to the youngest pupils in the scholae attached to monasteries.