Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages

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Reference Work

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xx, 322 pp. 26 illus.

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BRILL

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English

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Biographical note Readership Reviews

Biographical note

Carolyn A. Muessig, Ph.D. (1994) in Medieval Studies, Université de Montreal, is Newman Research Fellow of Medieval Theology at the University of Bristol. She has published articles and books on preaching history including Medieval Monastic Preaching (Brill, 1998).

Readership

Those interested in sermon and preaching history, literacy and orality, vernacular literature, preaching, rhetoric, and theology.

Reviews

'...a good volume, well-edited, symptomatic of the lively state of the subject…'
David L. D’Avray, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2004.

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9789004185722

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9789004171558

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This study offers a broad outline of the history of the eighteenth-century sermon. Thematically, it provides an overview of the research over the past three decades as well as suggesting new approaches to the history of preaching.

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9789004115644

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Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period

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9789004106819

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Preacher and Audience

Edited by Mary B. Cunningham and Pauline Allen

13 studies on Greek-speaking preachers and audiences in a period from the beginning of the second century A.D. to the beginning of the tenth century cover themes including the identity of Greek-speaking preachers, the circumstances of delivery, the different genres of homiletic, the adaptation ...