Paul's Cross and the culture of persuasion in England, 1520-1640 / / edited by Torrance Kirby, P. G. Stanwood.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, Volume 171
• TeilnehmendeR: Kirby, W. J. Torrance.; Stanwood, P. G.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 171.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (520 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The open-air pulpit within the precincts of St. Paul’s Cathedral known as ‘Paul’s Cross’ can be reckoned among the most influential of all public venues in early-modern England. Between 1520 and the early 1640's, this pulpit and its auditory constituted a microcosm of the realm and functioned a...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Torrance Kirby and P.G. Stanwood
• Introduction / Torrance Kirby and P.G. Stanwood
• Reconstructing St Paul’s Cathedral, 1520–1640 / John Schofield
• Paul’s Cross and Nationwide Special Worship, 1533–1642 / Natalie Mears
• Virtual Paul’s Cross: The Experience of Public Preaching after the Reformation / John N. Wall
• ‘The Tree and the Weed’: Bishop John Fisher’s Sermons at Paul’s Cross / Cecilia Hatt
• Paul’s Cross and the Crisis of the 1530's / Richard Rex
• Reformation Conflict between Stephen Gardiner and Robert Barnes, Lent 1540 / Ralph S. Werrell
• Paul’s Cross and the Implementation of Protestant Reforms under Edward VI / John N. King
• Public Conversion: Richard Smyth’s ‘Retractation’ at Paul’s Cross in 1547 / Torrance Kirby
• ‘Lords and Labourers’: Hugh Latimer’s Homiletical Hermeneutics / Jason Zuidema
• The Style and Logic of James Brooks’s 1553 ‘Reconciliation Sermon’ / Mark Rankin
• The Challenge of Catholicity: John Jewel at Paul’s Cross / Angela Ranson
• Paul’s Cross and the Dramatic Echoes of Early-Elizabethan Print / Thomas Dabbs
• Richard Hooker’s Paul’s Cross Sermon / David Neelands
• Edmund Campion in the Shadow of Paul’s Cross: The Culture of Disputation / Gerard Kilroy
• Thomas Bilson and Anti-Catholicism at Paul’s Cross / Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer
• Queen Elizabeth’s Performance at Paul’s Cross in 1588 / Steven W. May
• John Copcot, John Whitgift, and Mark Frank: ‘Right Cause and Faithful Obedience’ / P.G. Stanwood
• Bancroft versus Penry: Conscience and Authority in Elizabethan Polemics / W. Bradford Littlejohn
• Preaching the Good News: William Barlow Narrates the Fall of Essex and the Gunpowder Plot / Anne James
• ‘Paul’s Work’: Repair and Renovation of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1561–16251 / Roze Hentschell
• The Love-sick Spouse: John Stoughton’s 1624 Paul’s Cross Sermon in Context / Jeanne Shami
• Sermon, Salvation, Space: John Donne’s Performative Mode and the Politics of Accommodation / Kathleen O’Leary
• The Paul’s Cross Jeremiad and Other Sermons of Exhortation / Mary Morrissey
• Lost at Paul’s Cross: Unrecorded Sermons / Susan Wabuda
• Bibliography / Torrance Kirby and P.G. Stanwood
• Index / Torrance Kirby and P.G. Stanwood.