Drawing from the world-renowned collections in the Cambridge University Library, and guided by the advice of experts in each subject area, Cambridge University Press is using state-of-the-art scanning machines in its own Printing House to capture the content of each book selected for inclusion. The Cambridge Library Collection extends this activity to a wider range of books which are still of importance to researchers and professionals, either for the source material they contain, or as landmarks in the history of their academic discipline. This wide ranging and scholarly book remains a crucial work on medieval preaching.Ĭambridge University Press has long been a pioneer in the reissuing of out-of-print titles from its own backlist, producing digital reprints of books that are still sought after by scholars and students but could not be reprinted economically using traditional technology.
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The examination of the sermons covers not only their content and language, but also the surviving manuals on preaching and eloquence, and advice to preachers. In the second part he studies the experience of sermons, how, where and when they were delivered, and to whom. In the first section Owst discusses the different classes of preacher, the secular clergy, monks and particularly the wandering friars, famous for their preaching. The book is in three parts – the preachers, the circumstances of the preaching and reception, and the sermons themselves. In studying a largely neglected but important aspect of the medieval religious experience, the author adds considerably to our understanding of the pre-Reformation church. Owst’s Preaching in Medieval England has remained a seminal work on the topic of English sermons of the period 1350–1450. Preaching in Medieval England First published in 1926, G.R.
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The series includes work in social, political and military history on a wide range of periods and regions, giving modern scholars ready access to influential publications of the past. History The books reissued in this series include accounts of historical events and movements by eye-witnesses and contemporaries, as well as landmark studies that assembled significant source materials or developed new historiographical methods.
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