Angels and Earthly Creatures
Subtitle: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780812237535
Subjects: Christian ministry & pastoral activity; History of religion; World history: c 500 to C 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Preaching; Literary Criticism; Religion - Church History; Rhetoric, Medieval; Rhetoric; Christian Ministry - Preaching; Christianity - History - General; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; History; Christianity; Middle Ages, 600-1500; Religious aspects
First sentence: IN HIS DIALOGUES, GREGORY THE GREAT recounts at one point the story of a holy abbot, Equitius, and his preaching career.