Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-404) and index.
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Introduction / Georgiana Donavin -- The word made flesh : preaching and community from the apostolic to the late Middle Ages / Leo Carruthers -- 'Going to the gate of life' : the Carthage amphitheatre and Augustine's sermons on Saints Perpetua and Felicitas / John Kitchen -- Susanna Victrix, Christus Victor : lenten sermons, typology, and the lectionary / Catherine Brown Tkacz -- Time and again : a response to Leo Carruthers, John Kitchen, and Catherine Brown Tkacz / Jeffrey Burton Russell -- 'Let us love one another' : liturgy, morality, and political theory in Chrysostom's sermons on Rom. 12-13 and II Thess. 2 / Stephen Morris -- Preaching the dead from their graves : Bernard of Clairvaux's lament on his brother Gerard / Wim Verbaal -- 'Spare the rod and spoil the child' : proverbial speech acts, boy bishop sermons, and pedagogical violence / Eve Salisbury -- Bernardino of Siena Visualizes the name of God / Emily Michelson -- Sermons reflecting upon their world(s) : a response to Stephen Morris, Wire Verbaal, Eve Salisbury, and Emily Michelson / Peter Howard -- Illumination of the intellect : Franciscan sermons and Piers Plowman / David Strong -- Unauthorized preaching : the Sermon in Jean Bodel's Jeu de Saint Nicolas / Lynn T. Ramey -- The conversion of Mary Magdalene and the musical legacy of Franciscan piety in the early German passion plays / Peter V. Loewen -- Interdisciplinary craft : a response to Peter Loewen, Lynn T. Ramey, and David Strong / Elizabeth Schirmer -- Speech-reporting strategies in 'dramatic preaching' : with examples from east Slavic festal sermons / Ingunn Lunde -- Relic or strategy : the middle Dutch sermon as a literary phenomenon / Thom Mertens -- Fashioning devotion : the art of Good Friday preaching in Chaucerian England / Holly Johnson -- A statistical treatment of sin and holiness in sermons from the early Middle Ages (500-1100) / Martine De Reu.
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Multilingualism in medieval sermons : a response to Thom Mertens, Martine De Reu, Ingunn Lunde, and Holly Johnson / Simon Lordi -- Bibliography / Georgiana Donavin.
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"Speculum Sermonis is an anthology of essays about medieval sermons in the Christian East and West. It aims to reveal precisely how sermons inform different disciplines (for instance, social and Church history, literature, musicology) and how the methodologies of different disciplines inform sermons. Sermons can, for instance, provide evidence for a reconstruction of medieval liturgy; reciprocally, the field of liturgiology investigates sermons as one aspect of Church performance. The volume's title image of the mirror and the reference to medieval specula convey the idea of multiple reflections: the sermons' on culture and the disciplines' on sermons. Because the contributors to Speculum Sermonis come from a variety of fields, the essays here collectively provide a rich historical and contemporary academic context for reading the medieval sermon."--Jacket.