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.

“the articles in this collection represent the best of recent scholarship on early modern sermons. They speak with many voices, but eloquently remind us of the sermon’s power to persuade.”Seth Anderson, Claremont Graduate University. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 66, No. 2 (April 2015), p. 429.

• Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Acronyms List of Illustrations Introduction Part 1Situating Paul’s Cross1John 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 2Early 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 3Elizabethan 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 4Jacobean 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