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Macaronic Sermons
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Siegfried Wenzel
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-09-07 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Siegfried Wenzel's groundbreaking study seeks to describe and analyze the linguistically mixed, or macaronic, sermons in late fourteenth-century England. Not on
Medieval Monastic Preaching
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Carolyn Muessig
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: BRILL

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This book demonstrates that monastic preaching was a diverse activity which included preaching by monks, nuns and heretics. The study offers a preliminary step
Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman
Language: en
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Authors: Alastair Bennett
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-10-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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William Langland's Piers Plowman was written and read during a “golden age” of English preaching. The poem describes a world where sermons took many differe
The Seven Deadly Sins
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors: Richard Newhauser
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These essays examine the seven deadly sins as cultural constructions in the Middle Ages and beyond, focusing on the way concepts of the sins are used in medieva
The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Lisa H. Cooper
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval and early mo