French Pulpit Oratory, 1598–1650 : A Study of Themes and Styles, with a Descriptive Catalogue of Printed Texts (Paperback)

Preface; Note on the presentation of texts; Part I: 1. Studying sermons; 2. Rhetoric in the schools; 3. Rhetoric in the Church; 4. Prose patterns; 5. Sermon structure and its stylistic implications; 6. Themes and their imagery (i) illusion and reality; 7. Themes and their imagery (ii) 'Nature, that universal and publick Manuscript'; Postscript; Part II. Descriptive Catalogue of Printed Texts; Explanatory note; Abbreviations; Catalogue; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index to Part I.