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Price: $199.50

Format:
Hardback 624 pp.
30 b/w halftones, 171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-10:
0199237530

ISBN-13:
9780199237531

Publication date:
September 2011

Imprint: OUP UK

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The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon

Edited by Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington and Emma Rhatigan

Series : Oxford Handbooks of Literature

Scholarly interest in the early modern sermon has flourished in recent years, driven by belated recognition of the crucial importance of preaching to religious, cultural, and political life in early modern Britain. The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon is the first book to survey this rich new field for both students and specialists. It is divided into sections devoted to sermon composition, delivery, and reception; sermons in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; English Sermons, 1500-1660; and English Sermons, 1660-1720. The twenty-five original essays it contains represent emerging areas of interest, including research on sermons in performance, pulpit censorship, preaching and ecclesiology, women and sermons, the social, economic, and literary history of sermons in manuscript and print, and non-elite preaching.

The Handbook also responds to the recently recognised need to extend thinking about the 'early modern' across the watershed of the civil wars and interregnum, on both sides of which sermons and preaching remained a potent instrument of religious politics and a literary form of central importance to British culture. Complete with appendices of original documents of sermon theory, reception, and regulation, and generously illustrated, this is a comprehensive guide to the rhetorical, ecclesiastical, and historical precepts essential to the study of the early modern sermon in Britain.

Readership : Students and scholars of early modern literature, history, and culture, and theologians

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface
I. Composition, Delivery, Reception
1. Greg Kneidel: Ars Praedicandi: Theories and Practice
2. Lori Anne Ferrell: The Preacher's Bibles
3. Katrin Ettenhuber: The Preacher and Patristics
4. Carl Trueman: Preachers and Medieval and Renaissance Commentary
5. Noam Reisner: The Preacher and Profane Learning
6. Emma Rhatigan: Preaching Venues: Architecture and Auditories
7. Kate Armstrong: Sermons in Performance
8. Ian Green: Preaching in the Parishes
9. Jeanne Shami: Women and Sermons
10. John Craig: Sermon Reception
11. James Rigney: Sermons into Print
12. Peter McCullough: Preaching & Context: John Donne's Sermon at the Funerals of Sir William Cokayne
II. Sermons in Scotland, Ireland and Wales
13. Crawford Gribben: Preaching the Scottish Reformation, 1560-1707
14. Raymond Gillespie: Preaching the Reformation in Early Modern Ireland
15. Stephen Roberts: The Sermon in Early Modern Wales: Context and Content
III. English Sermons, 1500-1660
16. Lucy Wooding Kostyanovsky: From Tudor Humanism to Reformation Preaching
17. Ashley Null: Official Tudor Homilies
18. Arnold Hunt: Preaching the Elizabethan Settlement
19. Kevin Killeen: Veiled Speech: Preaching, Politics, and Scriptural Typology
20. Tom Webster: Preaching and Parliament, 1640-1659
IV. English Sermons, 1660-1720
21. Hugh Adlington: Restoration, Religion, and Law: Assize Sermons 1660-1685
22. Matt Jenkinson: Preaching at the Court of Charles II: Court Sermons and the Restoration Chapel Royal
23. Rosemary Dixon: Sermons in Print, 1660-1700
24. Tony Claydon: The Sermon Culture of the Glorious Revolution: Williamite Preaching and Jacobite Anti-Preaching, 1685-1702
25. Pasi Ihalainen: The Political Sermon in an Age of Party Strife, 1700-20: Contributions to the Conflict
V. Appendixes
I. Preachers on Preaching
II. Sermons Observed
III. Sermons Regulated
Select Bibliography
Index

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Peter McCullough is Fellow & Tutor in English at Lincoln College Oxford, and a leading expert on the works and lives of John Donne and Lancelot Andrewes. Hugh Adlington is Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham; he specialises in early modern religious writing, especially the sermons and scholarship of John Donne. Emma Rhatigan is Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Sheffield; her research and publications focus on early modern texts in performance (both drama and preaching), and their audiences.

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Special Features

  • The first major survey of the early modern sermon.
  • Comprehensive coverage of the field - bridges pre-post Reformation and pre-post Civil War, and gives specific treatment to sermons in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
  • Combines theoretical overviews with chronologically-specific, detailed studies.
  • Crucial but never-before assembled documents of sermon theory, reception, and regulation are included as appendices.
  • Illustrations throughout demonstrate the huge importance of performance, delivery, and reception.