Preaching, Politics and Poetry in Late-Medieval England

by Fletcher, Alan J.

• ISBN13: 9781851823772
• ISBN10: 1851823778
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Four Courts Pr Ltd

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
Preaching from North to South	p. 19
Preaching to the Converted: Sermons from Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire	p. 21
The Sermon Booklets of Friar Nicholas Philip	p. 41
'Magnus Predicator et Devotus': A Profile of the Fifteenth-Century Oxford Preacher, John Felton	p. 58
A Hive of Industry or a Hornet's Nest? MS Sidney Sussex College 74 and its Scribes	p. 119
Sermons as Social Cement: Living and Dying According to the Preachers	p. 143
'The Unity of the State exists in the Agreement of its Minds': A Fifteenth-Century Sermon on the Three Estates	p. 145
'In Die Sepulture seu Trigintali': The Late-Medieval Funeral and Memorial Sermon	p. 170
Politic Poetics: Langland and Chaucer's Negotiations of the Culture of Preaching	p. 199
Langland on Preaching	p. 201
The Social Trinity of Piers Plowman	p. 215
Chaucer on Churls	p. 233
The Preaching of the Pardoner	p. 249
The Topical Hypocrisy of the Pardoner	p. 266
The Summoner and the Abominable Anatomy of Antichrist	p. 281
Index	p. 305
Index of Manuscripts	p. 318
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