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The open-air pulpit in Paul's Churchyard in the City of London, known as Paul's Cross, is one of the most important vehicles of popular public persuasion employed by government from the outset of the Henrician Reformation in the early 1530s until the opening salvos of the Civil War when the pulpit was demolished. Paul's Cross became especially prominent as the public face of government when Thomas Cromwell orchestrated propaganda for the Henrician reformation in the early 1530s. Here too, after the accession of Edward VI, Hugh Latimer preached his 'Sermon on the Ploughers', one of the most celebrated sermons of the English Reformation. While Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London sat here listening to a sermon in 1553, a riot broke out. In November 1559, John Jewel preached his celebrated 'Challenge Sermon' here, arguably the most influential of all sermons delivered at Paul's Cross throughout the Tudor era. Near the end of Elizabeth's reign William Barlow mounted the pulpit to pronounce the government's response to the abortive rebellion of the Earl of Essex. Barlow preached another sermon at Paul's Cross in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Throughout the early modern period, Paul's Cross remained continuously at the epicentre of events which radically transformed England's religious and political identities. And throughout this transformation, animated as it was by a popular 'culture of persuasion' which Paul's Cross itself came to exemplify, the pulpit contributed enormously to the emergence of a new public arena of discourse. Many of these sermons preached at Paul's Cross have been lost; yet a considerable number have survived both in manuscript and in early printed editions. This edition makes available a selection of Paul's Cross sermons representative of this rich period in the maturation of England's popular culture of persuasion.
Table des matières
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Section I: Henrician Sermons (1521-1547)
- 1: John Fisher, Agaynst the pernicious doctryn of Martin Luther (1521)
- 2: Robert Singleton, A sermon preached at Poules crosse the fourth sonday in lent (1535)
- 3: Simon Matthew, Christus passus est pro nobis . A Good Friday sermon (1536)
- Section II: Edwardian Sermons (1547-1553)
- 4: Richard Smyth, A godly and faythfull retractation made and published at Paules crosse (1547)
- 5: Hugh Latimer, Sermon on the Ploughers (1548)
- 6: Thomas Lever, A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the xiiii day of December (1550)
- Section III: Marian Sermons (1553-1558)
- 7: James Brooks, A sermon very notable, fruictefull, and godlie made at Paules crosse in the first yere of the gracious reigne of our Souereigne ladie Quene Marie (1553)
- 8: Hugh Glasier, A notable and very fruictefull Sermon (1555)
- Section IV: Elizabethan Sermons (1558-1603)
- 9: John Jewel, Challenge sermon (1560)
- 10: James Bisse, Sermon at Paules Crosse (1580)
- 11: John Whitgift, Accession Day Sermon (1583)
- 12: John Copcot, Sermon at S. Paul s Cross, 1584, on Psalm xxxiv.1. wherein Answer is made to The Counterpoison (1584)
- 13: Richard Bancroft, A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 9. of Februarie being the first Sunday in the Parleament (1588)
- 14: Barlow, William. A sermon preached at Paules Crosse with a short discourse of the late Earle of Essex his confession, and penitence, before and at the time of his death (1601)
- Section V: Jacobean and Caroline Sermons (1603-1642)
- 15: Thomas Playfere, Heart s delight (1603)
- 16: William Goodwin, A Sermon preached at Paul s Cross on 5 November 1614
- 17: John Donne, A sermon on the booke of Iudges on the Directions for Preachers (1622)
- 18: Mark Frank, A sermon preached at St. Pauls Cross, in the year forty-one, and then commanded to be printed by King Charles the First (1642)
- Select Bibliography
A propos de l'auteur
Torrance Kirby is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at McGill University. He is the author of Richard Hooker Reformer and Platonist (Ashgate, 2005) and co-editor with P. G. Stanwood of Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640 (Brill, 2013). Professor Kirby is editor of A Companion to Richard Hooker (with Rowan Williams; Brill, 2008).
P.G. Stanwood is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. Professor Stanwood is a specialist in the Renaissance and in seventeenth-century English literature; he has edited nine books, including the final three books of Richard Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity (Harvard University Press, 1981) and John Cosin: A Collection of Private Devotions (Oxford University Press, 1967).
Mary Morrissey is Associate Professor of English at the University of Reading. Her primary research subject is Reformation literature, particularly from London. She is particularly interested in Paul's Cross, the most important public pulpit in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Her publications include Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons, 1558-1642 (OUP, 2011).
John N. King is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University. He is the author of English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition (Princeton University Press, 1982); Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and Art in an Age of Religious Crisis (Princeton University Press, 1989), and Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Résumé
The open-air pulpit in Paul's Churchyard in the City of London, known as Paul's Cross, is one of the most important vehicles of popular public persuasion employed by government from the outset of the Henrician Reformation in the early 1530s until the opening salvos of the Civil War when the pulpit was demolished. Paul's Cross became especially prominent as the public face of government when Thomas Cromwell orchestrated propaganda for the Henrician reformation in the early 1530s. Here too, after the accession of Edward VI, Hugh Latimer preached his 'Sermon on the Ploughers', one of the most celebrated sermons of the English Reformation. While Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London sat here listening to a sermon in 1553, a riot broke out. In November 1559, John Jewel preached his celebrated 'Challenge Sermon' here, arguably the most influential of all sermons delivered at Paul's Cross throughout the Tudor era. Near the end of Elizabeth's reign William Barlow mounted the pulpit to pronounce the government's response to the abortive rebellion of the Earl of Essex. Barlow preached another sermon at Paul's Cross in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Throughout the early modern period, Paul's Cross remained continuously at the epicentre of events which radically transformed England's religious and political identities. And throughout this transformation, animated as it was by a popular 'culture of persuasion' which Paul's Cross itself came to exemplify, the pulpit contributed enormously to the emergence of a new public arena of discourse. Many of these sermons preached at Paul's Cross have been lost; yet a considerable number have survived both in manuscript and in early printed editions. This edition makes available a selection of Paul's Cross sermons representative of this rich period in the maturation of England's popular culture of persuasion.
Texte suppl.
Under the leadership of Torrance Kirby, the distinguished editorial team of Paul Stanwood, Mary Morrissey, and John King, with contributing editors Cecilia Hatt, Mark Rankin, and Richard Rex, have done an outstanding job of bringing this selection of both famous and less well-known sermons vividly to life. Concise introductory essays preface the volume and each of the five regnal sections. Equally succinct essays precede each of the eighteen sermons, providing biographical information, historical, religious, and political contexts, and notes on textual and editorial conventions... Biblical and intermediary sources are identified, preachers terminology and hard words are glossed, textual variants recorded, and topical allusions explicated. The edition also contains an immensely useful bibliography of extant Pauls Cross sermons, and readers will be grateful for an index that lists themes as well as names.
Commentaire
Sermons at Paul's Cross provides welcome attention to the political exercise of preaching in Reformation England. Susan Wabuda, Renaissance Quarterly
