He establishes a technique of textual criticism appropriate for texts of this kind: a pragmatic compromise between simple transcriptions which ignore stemmatic relation and full-scale editions attempting to fit all manuscripts into a genealogical table, Medieval Marriage Sermons makes an important contribution both to the sermon literature of the period, and to our understanding of marriage and its religious and cultural significance in the middle ages.
Before the advent of printing, the preaching of the friars was the mass medium of the middle ages. In this edition of marriage sermons, David D'Avray reveals what famous preachers had to say about marriage. His study teases out the close connection between marriage symbolism and social, cultural, and legal realities in the thirteenth century.
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Before the advent of printing, the preaching of the friars was the mass medium of the middle ages. In this edition of marriage sermons, David D'Avray reveals what famous preachers had to say about marriage. His study teases out the close connection between marriage symbolism and social, cultural, and legal realities in the thirteenth century.
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.