Angels and Earthly Creatures. Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages. By Claire M. Waters. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 282 pp. £36 (hb)
Et verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis’: the Incarnation is at the root of Claire Waters’ insightful examination of the implications of corporeality on the theory and practice of preaching in the Middle Ages. In the corporeal absence of Christ on earth it is the preacher who acts as the hum...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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Literature and theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 215-217 |
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| Summary: | Et verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis’: the Incarnation is at the root of Claire Waters’ insightful examination of the implications of corporeality on the theory and practice of preaching in the Middle Ages. In the corporeal absence of Christ on earth it is the preacher who acts as the human embodiment of doctrine, an intermediary between God and the people who participates in and is responsible to both sides of the divide. Yet unlike his ultimate model, the preacher necessarily struggles with his human body and its susceptibility to fleshly failings like lust, vainglory, greed and deception—all associated in the Middle Ages with the feminine. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frl022 |