Margins of Error: Performance, Text, and the Editing of Early Modern Sermons

Abstract This article explores the editing of early-modern sermons, with a particular focus on the challenge of recovering the sermon in performance. Taking as its starting point the fact that most sermons were not written out until after their delivery in the pulpit, it considers the ways in which...

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Published inLibrary Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 423 - 444
Main Author Rhatigan, Emma
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Oxford University Press 01.12.2020
Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
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Early modern period
Editing
Errors
Sermons
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Summary:Abstract This article explores the editing of early-modern sermons, with a particular focus on the challenge of recovering the sermon in performance. Taking as its starting point the fact that most sermons were not written out until after their delivery in the pulpit, it considers the ways in which sermons resist conventional editorial methods based on the identification of ‘error’ and the reconstruction of a holograph text. It argues for a new approach to editing and a new perspective on error which uses these moments of textual complexity in order to shed light on a sermons evolution from sermon notes and pulpit delivery to written text.
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ISSN:0024-2160
1744-8581
DOI:10.1093/library/21.4.423