1. Introduction -- 2. Setting the scene -- 3. Ancient customs and new manners: medieval views of preaching -- 4. Preaching the gospel -- 5. The preaching of "Pastoralia" -- 6. Sermon form -- 7. The evidence of the manuscripts -- 8. The sermons' later history: a postscript -- Appendix: Selected sermon summaries
Summary
This is an interdisciplinary study of English sermons written in the 14th and 15th centuries, which relates the surviving texts to their historical and cultural background and endeavours to suggest what kind of men composed them and what their purpose might have been