... sermons and speeches associated with new church building projects as sites for the performance of historiographical authority, and traces the emergence of key narratives of identity and memory, which were powerfully expressed through the spaces and architectural forms of the church buildings. architecture...

... Summam Theologicae S Thomas Aquinatis Enarratio Toletus Europe Fox Adam Griffiths Paul Hindle Steve Eikon Basilike Royalist s Zwicker Steven D’Avenant William Libretti masque s sermon s quarto format Raymond Joad Art of Setting or Composing of Musick in Parts The Barley William Bathe...

... Levinthal Israel preaching occasions Sunday services Harrison Leon Krauskopf Joseph Levin Hirschel Levy J Leonard Wise Stephen S Armada Spanish Brandon David Crimean War fast day sermons ‘Indian Mutiny’ Napoleonic Wars plagues and epidemics ‘Revolt of the American Colonies’ Seven Years War...

... liberty Quakers religious freedom Lardner James Leslie Charles pamphlet s Burnet Gilbert Patrick Simon Stillingfleet Edward Bible the book length and its relation to cost Atterbury John Dodwell Henry English Civil War sermon s treatise s Allen Richard Answer to a Brief Discourse...

...This chapter explores and challenges the basis for modern criticism against Jewish leaders in the Middle Ages. It then reviews the work of one of the most important rabbinic figures in that perilous time, Rabbi Isaac Aboab, focusing especially on the texts of his sermons. Aboab left Spain...

...This chapter shows the perspective of those Jewish leaders who tried to restrict the freedom of expression of preachers when delivering sermons on controversial issues. Beginning in the thirteenth century, the chapter follows this theme into the modern period and includes the Jewish communities...

...This chapter examines the role of the colonial Church of England in the emergence of an English Diaspora. It analyses samples a range of sermons, charges, clerical correspondence, and periodical literature to explore the emergence the idea that the Church would play an integral role in the creation...

...This chapter highlights the life of Rabbi Moshe Shimon Sivitz, analyses the main issues discussed in his sermons, and offers a number of observations regarding the continuity and change in the content of his sermons. This discussion sheds additional light on the problems and concerns of Orthodox...

... a study of Anacreontic verse by Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick and Richard Lovelace. Hangovers, it contends, are more prominent in other forms of literature such as Protestant tracts and sermons and in bawdy verse and drama of the Restoration. They also feature regularly in what the chapter terms ‘anti...

...This chapter returns to Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira of Amsterdam and follows a single sermon as he adapted it some years after its original delivery. This contains explicit reference to catastrophic events that had befallen Jewish communities far away — in Lublin to the east and Recife to the west...

... on the very tradition of arranging sermons in clearly defined Parts or Puntos. Bacon Francis Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de Cibber Colley Descartes René Feijoo y Montenegro Benito Jeronimo Leibnitz G W Locke John Mayáns y Siscar Gregorio Newton Isaac Quevedo Francisco Don Quijote Cervantes Hamlet...

... that the decisive redactional strategy was to organize the exegetical sermons as a commentary on the Pentateuch. Here it is apposite to recall Scholem's observation that the literary composition of the Zohar ‘outwardly imitates the form of the Midrash’. Not only did the zoharic authors draw freely from rabbinic...

...This chapter explores Midrash in medieval and early modern sermons. It uses the word ‘Midrash’ loosely to refer not just to statements in collections known as Midrash, but to the full corpus of aggadic statements from rabbinic literature, including the Talmud, hooked to a biblical verse. Despite...

... of rabbinic literature, entitled Be'er Ha-Golah (Well of the Exile). In addition, five of Loew's sermons were also published. From what must have been extensive writings on Jewish religious law, only scanty documents have survived. From what must have been many responsa, only one has been...

...Wartime sermons reveal how Jews perceive themselves in relation to the majority society and how Jewish and national values are reconciled when the fate of a nation is at stake. They also illustrate how rabbis guide their communities through the challenges of their times. The sermons reproduced here...