Sermons at Paul's Cross, 1520-1640

by Kirby, Torrance; Stanwood, P. G.; Morrissey, Mary; King, John N.

• ISBN13: 9780198723615
• ISBN10: 019872361X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-12-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Torrance Kirby is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at McGill University. He is the author of Richard Hooker Reformer and Platonist (Ashgate, 2005) and co-editor with P. G. Stanwood of Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640 (Brill, 2013). Professor Kirby is editor of A Companion to Richard Hooker (with Rowan Williams; Brill, 2008).

P.G. Stanwood is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. Professor Stanwood is a specialist in the Renaissance and in seventeenth-century English literature; he has edited nine books, including the final three books of Richard Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity (Harvard University Press, 1981) and John Cosin: A Collection of Private Devotions (Oxford University Press, 1967).

Mary Morrissey is Associate Professor of English at the University of Reading. Her primary research subject is Reformation literature, particularly from London. She is particularly interested in Paul's Cross, the most important public pulpit in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Her publications include Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons, 1558-1642 (OUP, 2011).

John N. King is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University. He is the author of English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition (Princeton University Press, 1982); Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and Art in an Age of Religious Crisis (Princeton University Press, 1989), and Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
List of Contributors
Introduction
Section I: Henrician Sermons (1521-1547) Torrance Kirby, Richard Rex, and Cecilia Hatt
1. John Fisher, Agaynst the pernicious doctryn of Martin Luther (1521)
2. Robert Singleton, A sermon preached at Poules crosse the fourth sonday in lent (1535)
3. Simon Matthew, Christus passus est pro nobis . A Good Friday sermon (1536)
Section II: Edwardian Sermons (1547-1553) John N. King and Torrance Kirby
4. Richard Smyth, A godly and faythfull retractation made and published at Paules crosse (1547)
5. Hugh Latimer, Sermon on the Ploughers (1548)
6. Thomas Lever, A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the xiiii day of December (1550)
Section III: Marian Sermons (1553-1558) Mark Rankin and Torrance Kirby
7. James Brooks, A sermon very notable, fruictefull, and godlie made at Paules crosse in the first yere of the gracious reigne of our Souereigne ladie Quene Marie (1553)
8. Hugh Glasier, A notable and very fruictefull Sermon (1555)
Section IV: Elizabethan Sermons (1558-1603) Torrance Kirby, P.G. Stanwood, and Mary Morrissey
9. John Jewel, Challenge sermon (1560)
10. James Bisse, Sermon at Paules Crosse (1580)
11. John Whitgift, Accession Day Sermon (1583)
12. John Copcot, Sermon at S. Paul s Cross, 1584, on Psalm xxxiv.1. wherein Answer is made to The Counterpoison (1584)
13. Richard Bancroft, A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 9. of Februarie being the first Sunday in the Parleament (1588)
14. Barlow, William. A sermon preached at Paules Crosse with a short discourse of the late Earle of Essex his confession, and penitence, before and at the time of his death (1601)
Section V: Jacobean and Caroline Sermons (1603-1642) Mary Morrissey and P.G. Stanwood
15. Thomas Playfere, Heart s delight (1603)
16. William Goodwin, A Sermon preached at Paul s Cross on 5 November 1614
17. John Donne, A sermon on the booke of Iudges on the Directions for Preachers (1622)
18. Mark Frank, A sermon preached at St. Pauls Cross, in the year forty-one, and then commanded to be printed by King Charles the First (1642)
Select Bibliography, Mary Morrissey and Torrance Kirby