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- Stephan Borgehammar, Who Wrote the Admont Sermon Corpus - Gottfried the Abbot, his Brother Irimbert, or the Nuns pp. 47–51 in Jacqueline Hamesse (editor) De l'homélie au sermon: Histoire de la prédication médiévale
