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Part 1 Introduction: revising the study of the English sermon, Lori AnneFerrell, Peter McCullough. Part 2 The rhetoric of preaching: "every man thatprints adventures" - the rhetoric of the Virginia Company Sermons, AndrewFitzmaurice; elect nations and prophetic preaching - types and examples inthe Paul's Cross Jeremiad, Mary Morrisey; Thomas Playfere's "Poetics ofPreaching", Bryan Crockett. Part 3 Sermons on emergent political occasions:tuning the pulpits -the religious context of the Essex Revolt, Arnol Hunt;absolutist theology - the sermons of John Donne, Deborah Shuger;anti-Catholicism in the sermons of John Donne, Jeanne Shami; Joseph Hall.Robert Skinner, and the rhetoric of moderation at the early Stuart Court,Peter Lake. Part 4 Sermons and the modern "public sphere": "to lye upon astationers stall, like a piece of coarse flesh in a shambles" -the sermon ,print, and the English Civil War, James Rigney; the sermon, the "publicsphere" and the political culture of late 17th century England, Tony Claydon;preaching in parliament - patronage, publicity, and politics in GeorgianBritain, James Caudle.