Soldiers of Christ: Preaching in Late Medieval and Reformation FranceIn an age when the printed book was still in its infancy, the pulpit was the mass medium. A vital part of religious life, sermons were the chief occasions on which the church attempted to bridge the gap between high theology and popular religious culture. The preaching event provided the opportunity for men and women to socialize, flirt, dispute with or mock the preacher and, in a more positive way, to heed the preacher's words and change their lives. Larissa Taylor has examined over 1600 sermons given by the leading lay preachers in France between 1460 and 1560, and examines the social context of preaching and the sermon while reconstructing popular attitudes towards original sin, free will, purgatory, the Devil, the sacraments, and the magical arts. Previously published by Oxford University Press, 1992. Winner of the 1996 John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America. |
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Preaching in Late Medieval and Reformation France Larissa Taylor. Contents LIST OF TABLES , xiii 1. Introduction , 3 PART I The Art of Preaching 2. The Sermon as Event , 15 3. The Life of a Preacher , 37 4. The Study of Sermons , 52 PART ...
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Contents
Learning to Work with the Grieving Process | 3 |
Grieving Begins with Acknowledging Loss | 10 |
Denial Doesnt Deserve Its Bad Reputation | 22 |
Be Sad | 34 |
Be Angry | 49 |
Taming Fear | 63 |
The Journey Continues | 76 |
A Practitioners Guide for Working with the Grief | 89 |
The Quest for Salvation 83 | 83 |
The Religious Cosmos 102 | 102 |
The Life of the Christian Believer | 120 |
The Orders of Society | 141 |
The Preachers and Women | 156 |
Challenge and Response | 179 |
Heretical Preaching after the Reformation | 189 |
The Catholic Response to Early Protestant Heresy | 210 |
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A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation-State David Potter No preview available - 1995 |