Sermon, preacher and society in the middle ages
Carolyn Muessig
Over the past twenty-five years, studies produced on medieval preaching and sermons have grown so considerably that they now constitute a discipline known as sermon studies. The incorporates various methodologies which include exegesis, liturgy, theology, social history, cultural literary criticism, textual art history. Therefore, this essay can only be sampling of some literature has recently appeared. is ordered under headings: ‘sermon’, ‘preacher’, ‘society’. section isolates methodological issues form basis It outlines criteria scholars established to use an historical tool. second investigates diversity preachers considers their role educators. third society those examined sources reflect well influence moral intellectual tendencies in Middle Ages.
Journal of Medieval History