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Author Spencer, H. Leith

Title English preaching in the late Middle Ages / H. Leith Spencer
Published Oxford : Clarendon, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 542 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Analysis Christianity Preaching History
England
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Preaching -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Sermons, Medieval -- England -- History and criticism
Preaching -- Middle Ages
Sermons, Medieval
Bibliografie
Handschrift
Literaturbericht
Predigt
Preken.
Verkondiging.
Sermons anglais (moyen anglais)
Prédication -- Grande-Bretagne -- Angleterre (GB) -- Moyen âge.
Geschichte (1300-1500)
SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043265
England -- Religious life and customs
Subject England
England
Angleterre (GB) -- Vie religieuse -- Moyen âge.
Grande-Bretagne -- Vie religieuse -- Moyen-Age.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Church history
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 92040141
ISBN 9780191670664
0191670669