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Sermon-notes and seventeenth-century manuscript communities

Morrissey, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9287-3460 (2017) Sermon-notes and seventeenth-century manuscript communities. Huntington Library Quarterly, 80 (2). pp. 293-307. ISSN 1544-399X

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1353/hlq.2017.0017

Abstract/Summary

Any reader of manuscript catalogues knows how common the unhelpfully vague entry “sermon notes, 17th-century” can be. This essay explores whether we can find in sermon notes the kinds of textual communities that have been found through the reconstruction of other routes of manuscript circulation. It will unpick what those laconic catalogue entries mean, and distinguish the different kinds of sermon notes found in our archival collections (some derived from the original preacher, some from hearers, some from readers of manuscript and printed copies). The physical forms of different sorts of “sermon notes” alerts us to the different types of authors who created these manuscripts, and the different purposes involved in preserving an oration in textual form, purposes which included fostering the creation and maintenance of communal identities among the self-consciously godly or Catholic recusants.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Early Modern Research Centre (EMRC)
Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Literature
ID Code:56163
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

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