Medieval Sermon Studies since The Sermon: A Deepening and Broadening Field
Anne T. Thayer
Since the publication of The Sermon in 2000, field medieval sermon studies has matured into a well-established and growing interdisciplinary area studies. This article seeks to illustrate how we are doing our work where interests taking us. Growing numbers print electronic resources facilitate locating, accessing, interpreting texts other historical sources pertinent preaching. Via preparation carefully edited texts, exploration specific themes, illumination particular preaching traditions, increased depth understanding is being achieved. Sermonists use an expanding range scholarly methodologies pursue broadening topics, here exemplified by memory visual arts. Overarching much desire recover experiences what was fundamentally oral performative genre through its largely textual remains.
Medieval Sermon Studies