TY - BOOK ID - 11064624 TI - Angels and earthly creatures : preaching, performance, and gender in the later Middle Ages. PY - 2003 SN - 0812237536 0812204034 9780812237535 PB - Philadelphia (Pa.) University of Pennsylvania Press DB - UniCat KW - 251 "04/14" KW - Preaching KW - -Rhetoric KW - -Rhetoric, Medieval KW - Pastoral theology KW - -Care of souls KW - Cure of souls KW - Ministry KW - Pastoral office and work KW - Theology, Pastoral KW - Church work KW - Pastoral care KW - Language and languages KW - Speaking KW - Authorship KW - Expression KW - Style, Literary KW - Christian preaching KW - Homiletics KW - Public speaking KW - Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking:--middeleeuwen KW - History KW - -Religious aspects KW - -Christianity KW - -History KW - Catholic Church KW - -History of doctrines KW - Religious aspects KW - -Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking:--middeleeuwen KW - -251 "04/14" KW - 251 "04/14" Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking:--middeleeuwen KW - Rhétorique médiévale KW - Rhétorique médiévale KW - Christian fundamental theology KW - Christian church history KW - Christian pastoral theology KW - anno 1200-1499 KW - Rhetoric, Medieval KW - Rhetoric KW - Sermons, Medieval KW - Literary style KW - Care of souls KW - History of doctrines KW - Religious aspects&delete& KW - Christianity&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - Christianity KW - Rhetoric, Medieval. KW - History. KW - History and criticism. KW - Prédication KW - Rhétorique KW - Pastorale KW - Sermons médiévaux KW - Histoire KW - Aspect religieux KW - Christianisme KW - Eglise catholique KW - Histoire et critique KW - Preaching - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Rhetoric - Religious aspects - Christianity - History KW - Pastoral theology - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Pastoral theology - Catholic Church - History - To 1500 KW - Sermons, Medieval - History and criticism KW - Cultural Studies. KW - Gender Studies. KW - Literature. KW - Medieval and Renaissance Studies. KW - Religion. KW - Religious Studies. KW - Women's Studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11064624 AB - Texts 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. ER -