Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages

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Contents PREFACE IX INTRODUCTION I I. THE GOLDEN CHAINS OF CITATION I3 2. HOLY DUPLICITY: THE PREACHER'S TWO FACES 3I 3. A MANNER OF SPEAKING: ACCESS AND THE VERNACULAR 57 4. "MERE WORDS": GENDERED ELOQUENCE AND CHRISTIAN PREACHING 73 5· TRANSPARENT BODIES AND THE REDEMPTION OF RHETORIC 96 6. THE ALIBI OF FEMALE AUTHORITY I2I 7· SERMONES AD STATUS AND OLD WIVES' TALES; OR, THE AUDIENCE TALKS BACK I43 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS I69 NOTES I7I BIBLIOGRAPHY 249 INDEX 27I ...