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Ambrose's Imperial Funeral Sermons
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2007Ambrose's funeral sermons on the emperors Valentinian and Theodosius have been analysed as texts borrowing from classical rhetorical traditions, and as repositories of detail about contemporary politics. However, the crucial context for these texts was ecclesiastical; they were sermons, preached in church in services during which lessons were read from
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English Dissenters’ Funeral Sermons from 1660-1700
2020Cette étude se concentre sur les décennies suivant la Restauration (c. 1660-1700), où les non-conformistes souffrent à la fois de persécutions et de divisions internes. Elle analyse l’utilisation, dans ce contexte, du sermon funèbre, un genre dont la flexibilité permet la poursuite d’objectifs multiples qui servent à forger l’identité collective non ...
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Samuel Hieron'S “Worldling”: A Funeral Sermon, 1618 and the Controversy over Eulogies
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2012After the Reformation, English clergymen debated the efficacy of funeral eulogies. Some believed they flattered the deceased and might be seen as prayers for the dead. Because the bereaved wanted to hear about the goodness of their beloved, most preachers gave eulogies, some in a generalized form for Godly imitation, not expressing the deceased's ...
Bettie Anne, Doebler, Retha M, Warnicke
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The Domestic “Fruite of Eves Transgression” In Stuart Funeral Sermons
Prose Studies, 2006Threnoikos, or the House of Mourning, a compendious and widely circulated 1640 anthology of funeral sermons, reveals just how English Protestantism generated its own newly domesticated saints in the seventeenth century. Through its formal and generic conventions, its adoption of housewifely analogies for eulogistic preaching, and its striking ...
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Joshua Moody's Funeral Sermon for Thomas Daniel as Political Jeremiad
Canadian Review of American Studies, 1984To show how thoroughly conventional seventeenth-century American jeremiads had grown, Perry Miller felt it necessary only to observe that they had become "as fixed and stereotyped as the funeral sermon or latin oration."1 While Miller is right that without exception funeral sermons, like the deceased saints for whom they were written, appear other ...
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"To Oblige My Brethren": The Reformed Funeral Sermons of Johann Brandmüller
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005Sixteenth century Lutheran funeral sermons were intended for both clerical and popular audiences and sought to instruct and console the grieving. Unlike the Lutherans, the Reformed rejected most funeral ceremonial, including the preaching of funeral sermons.The collection of funeral sermons by the Reformed pastor Johann Brandmüller is unique in ...
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Anthony Walker, Mary Rich, and Seventeenth-Century Funeral Sermons of Women
Prose Studies, 2015AbstractThe publication of funeral sermons became increasingly common in seventeenth-century England, and the commemoration of women, especially those with some status, was not unusual; but Anthony Walker’s tribute to Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, is noteworthy.
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