Abstract
The thirteenth-century Latin treatise De doctrina cordis (The Doctrine of the Hert) emphasises spiritually efficacious language, explicitly equating words that comfort with words that feed. The Middle English version of De doctrina is known for its similar emphasis on words that both comfort and sustain. Both translations also liken God's Word to the sweet sound emitted by chiming silver. Like the vast majority of Christian devotional writing of the Middle Ages, De doctrina is organised around biblical quotation and supporting patristic allusion, and displays overt reliance on the Vulgate text of the Bible. It appears to be more reliant on Old Testament sapiential literature than other contemporary Middle English devotional texts.
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