Research Catalog

Title

Sermons at Paul's Cross, 1521-1642 / general editor Torrance Kirby ; edited by Torrance Kirby, P.G. Stanwood, Mary Morrissey, and John N. King.

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Kirby, W. J. Torrance
• Stanwood, P. G.
• Morrissey, Mary, Dr
• King, John N., 1945-

Description

xxiii, 555 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The open-air pulpit in Paul's Churchyard in the City of London, known as Paul's Cross, is one of the most important vehicles of popular public persuasion employed by government from the outset of the Henrician Reformation in the early 1530s until the opening salvos of the Civil War when the pulpit was demolished. Paul's Cross became especially prominent as the public face of government when Thomas Cromwell orchestrated propaganda for the Henrician reformation in the early 1530s. Here too, after the accession of Edward VI, Hugh Latimer preached his 'Sermon on the Ploughers', one of the most celebrated sermons of the English Reformation. While Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London sat here listening to a sermon in 1553, a riot broke out. In November 1559, John Jewel preached his celebrated 'Challenge Sermon' here, arguably the most influential of all sermons delivered at Paul's Cross throughout the Tudor era. Near the end of Elizabeth's reign William Barlow mounted the pulpit to pronounce the government's response to the abortive rebellion of the Earl of Essex. Barlow preached another sermon at Paul's Cross in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.0Throughout the early modern period, Paul's Cross remained continuously at the epicentre of events which radically transformed England's religious and political identities. And throughout this transformation, animated as it was by a popular 'culture of persuasion' which Paul's Cross itself came to exemplify, the pulpit contributed enormously to the emergence of a new public arena of discourse. Many of these sermons preached at Paul's Cross have been lost; yet a considerable number have survived both in manuscript and in early printed editions. This edition makes available a selection of Paul's Cross sermons representative of this rich period in the maturation of England's popular culture of persuasion."--Jacket flap.

Subject

• St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England)
• Church of England > Sermons
• Church of England
• 1500-1699
• Sermons, English > 16th century
• Sermons, English > 17th century
• Sermons, English

Genre/Form

Sermons.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-538) and index.

Contents

Against the pernicious doctrine of Martin Luther (1521) / John Fisher -- A sermon preached at Poules crosse the fourth Sunday in Lent (1535) / Robert Singleton -- 'Christus passus est pro nobis' : a Good Friday sermon (1537?) / Simon Matthew -- A godly and faythfull retractation made and published at Paules crosse (1547) / Richard Smyth -- Sermon on the ploughers (1548) / Hugh Latimer -- A sermon in the shroudes (1550) / Thomas Lever -- A sermon very notable, fruictefull, and godlie, made at Paules crosse (1553) / James Brooks -- A notable and very fruictefull sermon made at Paules crosse (1555) / Hugh Glasier -- 'The challenge sermon' : preached at Paul's cross (1560) / John Jewel -- Sermon preached at Paules crosse (1580) / James Bisse -- A most godly and learned sermon preached at Pauls crosse (1583) / John Whitgift -- A sermon preached at Paules crosse (1584) / John Copcot -- A sermon preached at Paul's crosse (1588) / Richard Bancroft -- A sermon preached at Paules crosse ... with a short discourse of the late Earle of Essex (1601) / William Barlow -- Hearts delight (1603) / Thomas Playfere -- A sermon preached at Pauls cross the 5th of November (1614) / William Goodwin -- A sermon upon the XV verse of the XX chapter of the booke of Judges [on the directions for preachers] (1622) / John Donne -- A Sermon preached at St Paul's cross (1642) / Mark Frank.

Call Number

JFE 18-978

ISBN

• 019872361X
• 9780198723615

LCCN

2016939564

OCLC

956748406

Title

Sermons at Paul's Cross, 1521-1642 / general editor Torrance Kirby ; edited by Torrance Kirby, P.G. Stanwood, Mary Morrissey, and John N. King.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-538) and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1699

Added Author

Kirby, W. J. Torrance, editor.

Stanwood, P. G., editor.

Morrissey, Mary, Dr, editor.

King, John N., 1945- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-978