Angels and Earthly Creatures : : Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages / / Claire M. Waters.
Texts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher's human nature and its intersection with his "angelic" role. Far from simply denigrating embodiment or excluding it from consideration, these works recognize its...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of 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