English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780198112037 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 560 str.

Nick Spencer; H. Leith Spencer

Opis

This interdisciplinary study of English sermons written in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries focuses on material recorded in English and relates the surviving texts to their historical and cultural background. H. Leith Spencer shows how the use of the vernacular to explore ideas hitherto expressed in Latin anticipated the better-known developments of the sixteenth century. His detailed and original study, drawing on the most up-to-date research, uncovers the pluralism of the medieval English church that anti-heretical legislation and Reformed propaganda sought to deny.

Recenzje

this book is a major contribution not only to the study of medieval preaching but also to the literary and ecclesiastical history of late-medival England as a whole ... one of the handful of books that must be consulted for an idea of the late-medieval English church ... Next in merit to Spencer's breadth of approach is the sheer learning exhibited in this work ... although it seems unlikely that Spencer's book will convert many to the reading of these sermons in extenso, she has made it possible for us to understand their social and intellectual dimensions.