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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"medieval sermons"”.
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The Experience of Listening to Sermons in Late Medieval England
Traditional scholarship on medieval sermons has approached them as delivered to the laity, rather than as experienced by them. In the well-trodden field of sermon studies, there has been an underlying assumption that the success or popularity of a sermon was chiefly determined by the rhetorical …
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Performing piety: preachers and players in East Anglia, 1400-1520
… examines the interdependent relationship between medieval sermons and plays in late-medieval East Anglia, arguing that the mutual use of thematic divisions and exempla (moral tales) evinces the reciprocal interaction of preacher and playwright. By focusing on these common rhetorical strategies, I …
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Conducting Women: Gender, Power,and Authority in the Rhetoric of French and English Conduct Literature of the Later Middle Ages
… different approaches in relationship to other medieval literary traditions such as the recording of visions, the generation of mental images as a means of mnemonic practice and meditation, the debate on women, and the use of exempla, a prominent rhetorical feature of pastoral medieval sermons. …
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Pastoral care according to the bishops of England and Wales (c.1170 – 1228)
… sources, combining this evidence with the extant sermons left by bishops reveals episcopal preaching to clerical, lay, and monastic audiences. Bishops also instructed the clergy through their writing. The two subjects bishops addressed most frequently were the Eucharist and confession. As new …