| English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages Contributor(s): Spencer, H. Leith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198112033 ISBN-13: 9780198112037 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $313.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1994 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Ministry - Preaching - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 251.009 |
| LCCN: 92040141 |
| Lexile Measure: 1650 |
| Physical Information: 1.44" H x 6.46" W x 9.54" (1.67 lbs) 558 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |