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Angels and Earthly Creatures : Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812204032
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Angels and Earthly CreaturesDDC classification:
  • 251.00940902
LOC classification:
  • BV4207 -- .W38 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of 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 -- List of 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.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of 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 -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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