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Claire M. Waters - Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages - 9780812237535 - V9780812237535
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Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages

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Description for Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages Hardback. Claire 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. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; HBG; HBLC; HRCC2; HRCX4. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.

Texts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher's human nature and its intersection with his "angelic" role. Far from simply denigrating embodiment or excluding it from consideration, these works recognize its centrality to the office of preacher and the ways in which preachers, like Christ, needed humanness to make their performance of doctrine effective for their audiences. At the same time, the texts warned of the preacher's susceptibility to the fleshly failings of lust, vainglory, deception, and greed. Preaching's problematic juxtaposition of the earthly and the spiritual made ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812237535
SKU
V9780812237535
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Ref
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About Claire M. Waters
Claire M. Waters teaches English at the University of California, Davis.

Reviews for Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages
"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 ... Read more

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