• List of Illustrations


• List of Contributors


• Preface


• I. Composition, Delivery, Reception


• 1: Greg Kneidel: Ars Praedicandi: Theories and Practice


• 2: Lori Anne Ferrell: The Preacher's Bibles


• 3: Katrin Ettenhuber: The Preacher and Patristics


• 4: Carl Trueman: Preachers and Medieval and Renaissance Commentary


• 5: Noam Reisner: The Preacher and Profane Learning


• 6: Emma Rhatigan: Preaching Venues: Architecture and Auditories


• 7: Kate Armstrong: Sermons in Performance


• 8: Ian Green: Preaching in the Parishes


• 9: Jeanne Shami: Women and Sermons


• 10: John Craig: Sermon Reception


• 11: James Rigney: Sermons into Print


• 12: Peter McCullough: Preaching and Context: John Donne's Sermon at the Funerals of Sir William Cokayne


• II. Sermons in Scotland, Ireland and Wales


• 13: Crawford Gribben: Preaching the Scottish Reformation, 1560-1707


• 14: Raymond Gillespie: Preaching the Reformation in Early Modern Ireland


• 15: Stephen Roberts: The Sermon in Early Modern Wales: Context and Content


• III. English Sermons, 1500-1660


• 16: Lucy Wooding Kostyanovsky: From Tudor Humanism to Reformation Preaching


• 17: Ashley Null: Official Tudor Homilies


• 18: Arnold Hunt: Preaching the Elizabethan Settlement


• 19: Kevin Killeen: Veiled Speech: Preaching, Politics, and Scriptural Typology


• 20: Tom Webster: Preaching and Parliament, 1640-1659


• IV. English Sermons, 1660-1720


• 21: Hugh Adlington: Restoration, Religion, and Law: Assize Sermons 1660-1685


• 22: Matt Jenkinson: Preaching at the Court of Charles II: Court Sermons and the Restoration Chapel Royal


• 23: Rosemary Dixon: Sermons in Print, 1660-1700


• 24: Tony Claydon: The Sermon Culture of the Glorious Revolution: Williamite Preaching and Jacobite Anti-Preaching, 1685-1702


• 25: Pasi Ihalainen: The Political Sermon in an Age of Party Strife, 1700-20: Contributions to the Conflict


• V. Appendixes


• I.: Preachers on Preaching


• II.: Sermons Observed


• III.: Sermons Regulated


• Select Bibliography


• Index

Peter McCullough is Fellow & Tutor in English at Lincoln College Oxford, and a leading expert on the works and lives of John Donne and Lancelot Andrewes.
Hugh Adlington is Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham; he specialises in early modern religious writing, especially the sermons and scholarship of John Donne.
Emma Rhatigan is Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Sheffield; her research and publications focus on early modern texts in performance (both drama and preaching), and their audiences.

The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon is the first book to survey this rich new field for both students and specialists. It is divided into sections devoted to sermon composition, delivery, and reception; sermons in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; English Sermons, 1500-1660; and English Sermons, 1660-1720.