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Article: Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period
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- The Catholic Historical Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Early Modern European Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period. Edited by Larissa Taylor. [A New History of the Sermon, 2.1 (Leiden: Brill. 2001. Pp. xviii. 397. $127.00.)
Following her two excellent studies on preaching in France in the Reformation, Larissa Taylor now brings together a valuable collection of essays by scholars of homiletics, each canvassing his or her familiar territory in the era of Europe's reformations, ca. 1450-1700.This work offers insight into the industry and mechanics of preaching and a useful review of current scholarship on the subject. Most important, Taylor's cohort conveys a vivid sense of preaching's social contexts and how crucial ...