Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms List of Contributors Introduction Section I: Henrician Sermons (1521-1547)Torrance Kirby, Richard Rex, and Cecilia Hatt: 1: John Fisher, Agaynst the pernicious doctryn of Martin Luther (1521) 2: Robert Singleton, A sermon preached at Poules crosse the fourth sonday in lent (1535) 3: Simon Matthew, Christus passus est pro nobis . A Good Friday sermon (1536) Section II: Edwardian Sermons (1547-1553)John N. King and Torrance Kirby: 4: Richard Smyth, A godly and faythfull retractation made and published at Paules crosse (1547) 5: Hugh Latimer, Sermon on the Ploughers (1548) 6: Thomas Lever, A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the xiiii day of December (1550) Section III: Marian Sermons (1553-1558)Mark Rankin and Torrance Kirby: 7: James Brooks, A sermon very notable, fruictefull, and godlie made at Paules crosse in the first yere of the gracious reigne of our Souereigne ladie Quene Marie (1553) 8: Hugh Glasier, A notable and very fruictefull Sermon (1555) Section IV: Elizabethan Sermons (1558-1603)Torrance Kirby, P.G. Stanwood, and Mary Morrissey: 9: John Jewel, Challenge sermon (1560) 10: James Bisse, Sermon at Paules Crosse (1580) 11: John Whitgift, Accession Day Sermon (1583) 12: John Copcot, Sermon at S. Paul s Cross, 1584, on Psalm xxxiv.1. wherein Answer is made to The Counterpoison (1584) 13: Richard Bancroft, A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 9. of Februarie being the first Sunday in the Parleament (1588) 14: Barlow, William. A sermon preached at Paules Crosse with a short discourse of the late Earle of Essex his confession, and penitence, before and at the time of his death (1601) Section V: Jacobean and Caroline Sermons (1603-1642)Mary Morrissey and P.G. Stanwood: 15: Thomas Playfere, Heart s delight (1603) 16: William Goodwin, A Sermon preached at Paul s Cross on 5 November 1614 17: John Donne, A sermon on the booke of Iudges on the Directions for Preachers (1622) 18: Mark Frank, A sermon preached at St. Pauls Cross, in the year forty-one, and then commanded to be printed by King Charles the First (1642) Mary Morrissey and Torrance Kirby: Select Bibliography

About the Author

Torrance Kirby is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at McGill University. He is the author of Richard Hooker Reformer and Platonist (Ashgate, 2005) and co-editor with P. G. Stanwood of Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640 (Brill, 2013). Professor Kirby is editor of A Companion to Richard Hooker (with Rowan Williams; Brill, 2008). P.G. Stanwood is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. Professor Stanwood is a specialist in the Renaissance and in seventeenth-century English literature; he has edited nine books, including the final three books of Richard Hooker's Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity (Harvard University Press, 1981) and John Cosin: A Collection of Private Devotions (Oxford University Press, 1967). Mary Morrissey is Associate Professor of English at the University of Reading. Her primary research subject is Reformation literature, particularly from London. She is particularly interested in Paul's Cross, the most important public pulpit in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Her publications include Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons, 1558-1642 (OUP, 2011). John N. King is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University. He is the author of English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition (Princeton University Press, 1982); Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and Art in an Age of Religious Crisis (Princeton University Press, 1989), and Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Reviews

Sermons at Paul's Cross provides welcome attention to the political exercise of preaching in Reformation England. * Susan Wabuda, Renaissance Quarterly *
Under the leadership of Torrance Kirby, the distinguished editorial team of Paul Stanwood, Mary Morrissey, and John King, with contributing editors Cecilia Hatt, Mark Rankin, and Richard Rex, have done an outstanding job of bringing this selection of both famous and less well-known sermons vividly to life. Concise introductory essays preface the volume and each of the five regnal sections. Equally succinct essays precede each of the eighteen sermons, providing biographical information, historical, religious, and political contexts, and notes on textual and editorial conventions... Biblical and intermediary sources are identified, preachers terminology and hard words are glossed, textual variants recorded, and topical allusions explicated. The edition also contains an immensely useful bibliography of extant Pauls Cross sermons, and readers will be grateful for an index that lists themes as well as names. * Hugh Adlington, Reading Religion *