French Pulpit Oratory, 15981650 by Peter Bayley - 9780521168359

French Pulpit Oratory, 15981650A Study of Themes and Styles, with a Descriptive Catalogue of Printed Texts\nAuthor(s): Peter Bayley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521168359, 978-0521168359\nSynopsis\nThis 1980 text was the first full-length study of seventeenth-century pulpit oratory since 1863, and the first to treat both Catholic and Protestant preaching. The first part opens with a general discussion on the sermon as a literary form, followed by a survey of ideas on preaching and the practical 'arts of preaching' circulating in late Renaissance Europe. Of the central chapters on the sermons themselves, two are concerned with the style and complex formal structures of the sermons; while two examine in turn the major themes of illusion and nature and the imagery associated with them. The second part is a descriptive catalogue of extant sermons and some funeral orations of the period, which .