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These five macaronic Good Friday sermons, preached in England, together open a window onto late medieval conceptions of the Passion, affective rhetoric, the art of memory, and the medieval imagination.

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"""Johnson's careful attention to scholarly details and her thorough familiarity with the secondary literature and scholarship on medieval English preaching...add to the strength of this work. [...] Scholars of medieval rhetoric, history, religion, and sermon studies will welcome this important addition to the corpus of edited and translated texts."" --Ronald J. Stansbury, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, January 2015, Vol. 90, No. 1"

Johnson's careful attention to scholarly details and her thorough familiarity with the secondary literature and scholarship on medieval English preaching...add to the strength of this work. [...] Scholars of medieval rhetoric, history, religion, and sermon studies will welcome this important addition to the corpus of edited and translated texts. --Ronald J. Stansbury, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, January 2015, Vol. 90, No. 1

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Holly Johnson teaches courses in Old and Middle English Literature at the Mississippi State University. She specializes in late-medieval literature, with an interest in sermons, the art of memory and the medieval imagination.

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