Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640

Torrance Kirby, DPhil (1988) in Modern History, Christ Church, University of Oxford, is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Centre for Research on Religion at McGill University. He has published extensively on the thought of Richard Hooker and recently edited A Companion to Richard Hooker (Brill, 2008). P.G. Stanwood, PhD (1961) in English Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on Renaissance and 17th century English Literature; Bibliography; Richard Hooker; English Reformation; Jeremy Taylor; John Donne; John Milton.

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Acronyms

List of Illustrations

Introduction


Part 1
Situating Paul’s Cross

1John Schofield
Reconstructing St Paul’s Cathedral, 1520—1640

2Natalie Mears
Paul’s Cross and nationwide special worship, 1533—1642

3John N. Wall
Virtual Paul’s Cross: the experience of public preaching after the Reformation


Part 2
Early Tudor Sermons, 1520—1558

4Cecilia Hatt
‘The tree and the weed’: John Fisher’s Paul’s Cross sermons

5Richard Rex
Paul’s Cross and the Crisis of the 1530s

6Ralph S. Werrell
Reformation conflict between Stephen Gardiner and Robert Barnes, Lent 1540

7 John N. King
Paul’s Cross and the implementation of Protestant reforms under Edward VI

8Torrance Kirby
Public conversion: Richard Smyth’s ‘Retractation’ at Paul’s Cross in 1547

9Jason Zuidema
‘Lords and labourers’: Hugh Latimer’s homiletical hermeneutics

10Mark Rankin
The style and logic of James Brooks’s 1553 ‘Reconciliation Sermon’

Part 3
Elizabethan Sermons, 1558—1603

11Angela Ranson
The challenge of Catholicity: John Jewel at Paul’s Cross

12Thomas Dabbs
Paul’s Cross and the dramatic echoes of early-Elizabethan print

13David Neelands
Richard Hooker’s Paul’s Cross sermon

14Gerard Kilroy
Edmund Campion in the shadow of Paul’s Cross: the culture of disputation

15Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer
Thomas Bilson and Anti-Catholicism at Paul’s Cross

16Steven W. May
Queen Elizabeth’s performance at Paul’s Cross in 1588

17P.G. Stanwood
John Copcot, John Whitgift, and Mark Frank: ‘right cause and faithful obedience’

18W. Bradford Littlejohn
Bancroft versus Penry: conscience and authority in late-Elizabethan polemics


Part 4
Jacobean and Caroline Sermons, 1603—1640

19Anne James
Preaching the Good News: William Barlow narrates the fall of Essex and the Gunpowder Plot

20Roze Hentschell
‘Paul’s Work’: repair and renovation of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1561—1625

21Jeanne Shami
The Love-sick Spouse: John Stoughton’s 1624 Paul’s Cross sermon in context

22Kathleen O’Leary
Sermon, Salvation, Space: John Donne’s performative mode and the politics of accommodation

23Mary Morrissey
The Paul’s Cross Jeremiad and other sermons of exhortation

24Susan Wabuda
Lost at Paul’s Cross: unrecorded sermons


Bibliography

Index