Preacher, sermon and audience in the Middle Ages / edited by Carolyn Muessig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muessig, Carolyn.

Series:

New history of the sermon ; v. 3.

New history of the sermon ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Preaching--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Preaching.

Sermons--History and criticism.

Sermons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 322 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages presents research by specialists of preaching history and literature. This volume fills some of the lacunae which exists in medieval sermon studies. The topics include: an analysis of how oral and written cultures meet in sermon literature, the function of vernacular sermons, an examination of the usefulness of non-sermon sources such as art in the study of preaching history, sermon genres, the significance of heretical preaching, audience composition and its influence on sermon content, and the use of rhetoric in sermon construction. The study looks at preaching history and literature from a wide geographical and chronological area which includes examples from Anglo-Saxon England to late medieval Italy. While doing so, it outlines the state of sermon studies research and points to new areas of investigation.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Carolyn Muessig

Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages: An Introduction / Carolyn Muessig

From Texts to Preaching: Retrieving the Medieval Sermon as an Event / OP Augustine Thompson

The Ars Praedicandi and the Medieval Sermon / Phyllis B. Roberts

Coram Papa Preaching and Rhetorical Community at Papal Avignon / Blake Beattie

Medieval Sermons and their Performance: Theory and Record / Beverly Mayne Kienzle

The Preacher as Goldsmith: The Italian Preachers' Use of the Visual Arts / Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby

Preaching and Image: Sermons and Wall Paintings in Later Medieval England / Miriam Gill

The Preacher Saint in Late Medieval Italian Art / Roberto Rusconi

Vercelli Homilies XI-XIII and the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform: Tailored Sources and Implied Audiences / Charles D. Wright

The Preacher as Women’s Mentor / Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby

Audience and Preacher: ad Status Sermons and Social Classification / Carolyn Muessig

The Context of Medieval Sermon Collections on Saints / George Ferzoco

Reconstructing the Mental Calendar of Medieval Preaching: A Method and Its Limits: An Analysis of Sunday Sermons / Jussi Hanska

General Index / Carolyn Muessig.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46408-9

9786610464081

1-4175-0703-9

90-474-0022-4

OCLC:

608594436

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047400226 DOI