Angels and Earthly Creatures : Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages /
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.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2004.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.