(1295-1348) Counselor of king Peter III of Aragón, Bernat Oliver was a friar of the order of Saint Agustin, bishop of Huesca, Barcelona and Tortosa, as well as author of an Excitatori de la pensa a Déu (Excitatory of the thoughts to God), a Tractatus contra perfidiam iudeorum, and teacher of theology in Paris and Valencia.
There are extant sermons in Valencia, Tortosa and Viena[note]Archivo de la Catedral de Valencia, ms.215, f. 72rb-78vb, 105ra-113rb; Tortosa, Arxiu de la Catedral, ms. 96; Viena BN 4151, Viena, Heilingenkreuz, StB. 143, f. 188-190 and 212-217.[/note]. He preached at the Popes’ court in Avignon in 1334.
Published books:
- Excitatori de la pensa a Déu. Barcelona, Barcino, 1929.
- El Tratrado “Contra Caecitatem Iudaeorum” de Fray Bernardo Oliver. Francisco Cantera Burgos, ed. Madrid, Instituto Arias Montano, Madrid – 1965.
Bibliography:
- BEATTIE, Blake, «Coram Papa Preaching and Rhetorical Community at Papal Avignon», en MUESSIG, Carolyn (ed.), Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages, Brill, Leiden, 2002, p. 63-86.
- VENDRELL, Francisca, «La obra de polemica antijudaica de fray Bernardo Oliver», Sefarad, 5 (1945), 303-336.
- ROTH, Norman, «Oliver, Bernardo» in Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, ed. by E. Michael Gerli, Routledge, 2013, p. 621-2.