Angels and earthly creatures : preaching, performance, and gender in the later Middle Ages /

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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Waters, Claire M.
Format:	eBook Electronic
Language:	English
Language notes:	In English.
Imprint:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004.
Series:	Middle Ages series.
Subjects:	600-1500 To 1500 Preaching > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500. Rhetoric > Religious aspects > Christianity > History. Rhetoric, Medieval. Pastoral theology > Catholic Church > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500. Pastoral theology > Catholic Church Preaching > Middle Ages Rhetoric, Medieval Rhetoric > Religious aspects > Christianity Sermons, Medieval Cultural Studies. Gender Studies. Literature. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Religion. Religious Studies. Women's Studies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
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
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Angels and earthly creatures : preaching, performance, and gender in the later Middle Ages /

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