LEADER 04672nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910812312303321 005 20240418031248.0 010 $a0-8122-0403-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204032 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418286 035 $a(EBL)3442164 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053174 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11950351 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053174 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11113502 035 $a(PQKB)11505347 035 $a(OCoLC)859161022 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29223 035 $a(DE-B1597)449733 035 $a(OCoLC)979591873 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204032 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442164 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748590 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442164 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418286 100 $a20030930d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAngels and earthly creatures$b[electronic resource] $epreaching, performance, and gender in the later Middle Ages /$fClaire M. Waters 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-3753-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-269) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Golden Chains of Citation --$t2. Holy Duplicity: The Preacher's Two Faces --$t3. A Manner of Speaking: Access and the Vernacular --$t4. "Mere Words": Gendered Eloquence and Christian Preaching --$t5. Transparent Bodies and the Redemption of Rhetoric --$t6. The Alibi of Female Authority --$t7. Sermones ad Status and Old Wives' Tales; or, The Audience Talks Back --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aTexts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher's human nature and its intersection with his "angelic" role. Far from simply denigrating embodiment or excluding it from consideration, these works recognize its centrality to the office of preacher and the ways in which preachers, like Christ, needed humanness to make their performance of doctrine effective for their audiences. At the same time, the texts warned of the preacher's susceptibility to the fleshly failings of lust, vainglory, deception, and greed. Preaching's problematic juxtaposition of the earthly and the spiritual made images of women preachers, real and fictional, key to understanding and exploiting the power, as well as the dangers, of the feminized flesh. Addressing the underexamined bodies of the clergy in light of both medieval and modern discussions of female authority and the body of Christ in medieval culture, Angels and Earthly Creatures reinserts women into the history of preaching and brings together discourses that would have been intertwined in the Middle Ages but are often treated separately by scholars. The examination of handbooks for preachers as literary texts also demonstrates their extensive interaction with secular literary traditions, explored here with particular reference to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Through a close and insightful reading of a wide variety of texts and figures, including Hildegard of Bingen, Birgitta of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena, Waters offers an original examination of the preacher's unique role as an intermediary-standing between heaven and earth, between God and people, participating in and responsible to both sides of that divide. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aPreaching$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aRhetoric$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory 606 $aRhetoric, Medieval 606 $aPastoral theology$xCatholic Church$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 0$aPreaching$xHistory 615 0$aRhetoric$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory. 615 0$aRhetoric, Medieval. 615 0$aPastoral theology$xCatholic Church$xHistory of doctrines 676 $a251/.0094/0902 700 $aWaters$b Claire M$01614852 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812312303321 996 $aAngels and earthly creatures$93944822 997 $aUNINA