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

• Published in: Library Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 423 - 444
• Main Author: Rhatigan, Emma
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Oxford University Press 01.12.2020; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Early modern period; Editing; Errors; 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...