Remembering the Dead The Role of Manuscript Sermons & Sermon Notes in Researching Early Modern Memorial Practice
The GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons) project is a bibliographic database containing records of manuscript sermons, sermon notes, and sermon reports in libraries across Britain and North America. Our database currently holds close to 18,000 records of sermons as well as information...
| Published in: | International congregational journal |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
NACCC
2020
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| In: |
International congregational journal
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance RE Homiletics ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious Studies
B BIBLIOGRAPHIC databases B Memory B Religious communities B North America B Clergy B Manuscripts |
| Summary: | The GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons) project is a bibliographic database containing records of manuscript sermons, sermon notes, and sermon reports in libraries across Britain and North America. Our database currently holds close to 18,000 records of sermons as well as information about preachers, auditors, and manuscript owners when available. Thanks to the support of many archivists and librarians, including those at Doctor Williams's Library and the Congregational Library, we have been able to access many remarkable miscatalogued, uncatalogued, and previously unidentified manuscripts that have encouraged us to explore a few of the paths these materials have uncovered. These two articles were given by both authors as the Congregational Lecture. They have been presented in consecutive issues for reasons of space, and ease of access. Together, they underscore the role sermons play in revealing the cultural tensions of their historical moments. They illustrate a few of the ways in which manuscript sermons and sermon notes may be used to enhance our understanding of early modern culture. GEMMS data offers opportunities for many other kinds of research including studies of religious communities, preachers, notetakers, book history, women, and performance. First and foremost, our goal is to create and sustain conversations among scholars who use sermons in their studies of literature, theology, and various branches of history. We hope that these articles will stimulate further conversations and explorations of some of these possibilities. |
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| ISSN: | 1472-2089 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International congregational journal
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