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Sermons at Paul's Cross, 1521-1642 (Hardcover)
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Sermons at Paul's Cross, 1521-1642 (Hardcover)
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The open-air pulpit in Paul's Churchyard in the City of London,
known as Paul's Cross, is one of the most important vehicles of
popular public persuasion employed by government from the outset of
the Henrician Reformation in the early 1530s until the opening
salvos of the Civil War when the pulpit was demolished. Paul's
Cross became especially prominent as the public face of government
when Thomas Cromwell orchestrated propaganda for the Henrician
reformation in the early 1530s. Here too, after the accession of
Edward VI, Hugh Latimer preached his 'Sermon on the Ploughers', one
of the most celebrated sermons of the English Reformation. While
Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London sat here listening to a sermon in
1553, a riot broke out. In November 1559, John Jewel preached his
celebrated 'Challenge Sermon' here, arguably the most influential
of all sermons delivered at Paul's Cross throughout the Tudor era.
Near the end of Elizabeth's reign William Barlow mounted the pulpit
to pronounce the government's response to the abortive rebellion of
the Earl of Essex. Barlow preached another sermon at Paul's Cross
in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Throughout the early
modern period, Paul's Cross remained continuously at the epicentre
of events which radically transformed England's religious and
political identities. And throughout this transformation, animated
as it was by a popular 'culture of persuasion' which Paul's Cross
itself came to exemplify, the pulpit contributed enormously to the
emergence of a new public arena of discourse. Many of these sermons
preached at Paul's Cross have been lost; yet a considerable number
have survived both in manuscript and in early printed editions.
This edition makes available a selection of Paul's Cross sermons
representative of this rich period in the maturation of England's
popular culture of persuasion.
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