Medieval Marriage Sermons: Mass Communication in a Culture Without Print

ISBN-13: 9780198208143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 352 str.

D. L. D'Avray; D. L. D'Avray

Opis

Before the advent of printing, the preaching of the friars was the mass medium of the middle ages. In this edition of marriage sermons, David D'Avray reveals what famous preachers had to say about marriage. His study teases out the close connection between marriage symbolism and social, cultural, and legal realities in the thirteenth century.

Recenzje

As an example of textual editing, this book could scarcely be bettered ... Anyone interested in the processes of oral and scribal transmission, for whatever period, would do well to study its conclusions.