Abstract

Throughout the Middle Ages the Bible occupied the key post in dominican formation, preaching, and educating process. Particular exegetical tools, in which the Dominicans excelled in the 13th century, consisted of postillae, correctoria, concordantiae and distinctiones. In fact, all the mentioned exegetic tools found their use also in the case of sermones and other activities connected with contemporary preaching activities within the wider ars predicandi.

Keywords: 13th century, Paris, dominicans, exegetical tools