Description
Book SynopsisClaire 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.
Trade Review"Waters's book is remarkable in the range of sources employed and the attention paid to each genre and work in its cultural context. . . . Her book makes a significant new contribution to the growing field of sermon studies and should also be taken seriously by students of intellectual history who seek to understand the complex roles preachers and preaching played in the later Middle Ages." *
Journal of Religion *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Golden Chains of Citation
Chapter 2 Holy Duplicity: The Preacher's Two Faces
Chapter 3 A Manner of Speaking: Access and the Vernacular
Chapter 4 "Mere Words": Gendered Eloquence and Christian Preaching
Chapter 5 Transparent Bodies and the Redemption of Rhetoric
Chapter 6 The Alibi of Female Authority
Chapter 7 Sermones ad Status and Old Wives' Tales; or, The Audience Talks Back
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
