Sermon, preacher and society in the middle ages

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ID11892180
AuthorsCarolyn Muessig (0000-0003-0491-4312, University of Bristol, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume28
Issue1
Pages73-91
Publication date2002-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Medieval History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0304-4181 • E-ISSN: 1873-1279
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/s0304-4181(01)00021-5
OpenAlexW1974832939
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Over the past twenty-five years, studies produced on medieval preaching and sermons have grown so considerably that they now constitute a discipline known as sermon studies. The discipline incorporates various methodologies which include exegesis, liturgy, theology, social history, cultural history, literary criticism, textual criticism, and art history. Therefore, this essay can only be a sampling of some of the literature which has recently appeared. The essay is ordered under the headings: ‘sermon’, ‘preacher’, and ‘society’. The section on sermons isolates methodological issues which form the basis of sermon studies. It outlines the criteria scholars have established to use medieval sermons as an historical tool. The second section investigates the diversity of preachers and considers their role as educators. The third section on society considers those studies which have examined sermons as sources which reflect as well as influence moral and intellectual tendencies in the Middle Ages

Ancient history · Art · Criticism · Exegesis · Literature · Liturgy · Middle Ages · Section (typography · Sermon · Sociology · Textual criticism · Theology · Classics · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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