Ars Praedicandi

Ars praedicandi was a literary genre of the later Middle Ages made up of treatises and manuals meant to help preachers compose and deliver sermons in the period's modern style. The term could also refer to the act or theory of preaching itself. It was one of several genres of technical treatise on literary composition that flourished in the later Middle Ages, alongside the ars dictaminis for letter writing, the ars grammatica for Latin grammar, and the ars poetriae for verse, and it is counted among the medieval branches of rhetoric as well as part of the broader category of late medieval pastoralia.