Preacher and Audience

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Reference Work

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x, 370 pp.

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BRILL

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English

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Biographical note Readership Reviews

Biographical note

Mary B. Cunningham, Ph.D. (1984) in Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, England, is Honorary Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities at the University of Birmingham. She has published papers on Byzantine preaching, edited homiletic and hagiographical texts and is currently working on a book on Andrew of Crete.
Pauline Allen, D.Phil. (1977) in Litterae Humaniores, University of Oxford, is Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University. She has published on Christian preaching and ecclesiastical history, and has edited and translated early Byzantine texts.

Readership

All those interested in Classical and Christian rhetoric, Late Antiquity and Byzantium, social history and orality, as well as Greek philologists, liturgists and mediaevalists.

Reviews

'...a most admirable and substantial collection.'
Alexander Evers, Journal of Roman Studies, 2000.
'...well planned, tidily edited, with high quality contributions.'
M.E. Mullett, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2000.
'Im ganzen ist der Band jedenfalls, was die Methodik der Fragestellung an den Gegenstand betrifft, von beeindruckender Geschollsenheit.'
Franz Tinnefeld, Jahrbuch der Österreichisen Byzantinistik, 2000.
'This book deserves to be the seedbed of a flowering of scholarship.'
Richard Price, Fellowship of St.Alban and St.Sergius.

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9789004185722

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A New History of the Sermon

Edited by Robert H. Ellison

This collection offers fresh perspectives on British and American preaching in the nineteenth century. Drawing on many religious traditions and addressing a host of cultural and political topics, it will appeal to scholars specializing in any number of academic fields.

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9789004171558

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Preaching, Sermon and Cultural Change in the Long Eighteenth Century

Edited by Joris van Eijnatten

This study offers a broad outline of the history of the eighteenth-century sermon. Thematically, it provides an overview of the research over the past three decades as well as suggesting new approaches to the history of preaching.

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9789004114166

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Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages

Edited by Carolyn Muessig

Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages outlines the state of sermon studies research and points to new areas of investigation. Subjects include a consideration of audience composition, heretical preaching, rhetoric, sermon genres, and the use of art in medieval preaching.

€172.00$223.00

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9789004115644

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Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period

Edited by Larissa Taylor

This anthology provides a broad overview of the social history of preaching throughout Western and Central Europe, with sections devoted to genre, specific countries, and commentary on the appeal of the Reformation messages.