Title Angels and earthly creatures : preaching, performance, and gender in the later Middle Ages / Claire M. Waters

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 282 pages) Series The Middle Ages series Middle Ages series Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Golden Chains of Citation -- 2. Holy Duplicity: The Preacher's Two Faces -- 3. A Manner of Speaking: Access and the Vernacular -- 4. "Mere Words": Gendered Eloquence and Christian Preaching -- 5. Transparent Bodies and the Redemption of Rhetoric -- 6. The Alibi of Female Authority -- 7. Sermones ad Status and Old Wives' Tales; or, The Audience Talks Back -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Claire M. Waters offers an original examination of the preacher's unique role as an intermediary--standing between heaven and earth, between God and people, participating in and responsible to both sides of that divide Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and index Notes In English Subject Preaching -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History Rhetoric, Medieval. Pastoral theology -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval. Pastoral theology -- Catholic Church Preaching -- Middle Ages Rhetoric, Medieval Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Sermons, Medieval Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2003065756 ISBN 9780812204032 0812204034

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