Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Catherine Evans, “Locating Devotion: Sermon Title Pages and the Early Modern Book Market, 1620–1642,” The Library 24: 1 (March 2023), pp. 3–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad001
Jennifer Farooq and Hannah Yip, “GEMMS – Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons: A Case Study in Digital Sermon Collections,” A Companion to Preaching and the Sermon, The Twentieth Century, eds. Keith A. Francis and Robert Ellison (Brill, forthcoming 2025).
Anne James and Jeanne Shami, "GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons): Developing a Community of Sermons Scholars," in The Past Present and Future of Early Modern Digital Studies. New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11. Series ed. Raymond G. Siements. Iter at 25, ed. Ray Siemens and Laura Estill. (Iter Press, forthcoming 2023), pp. 125-143.
——, "Manuscripts and Sermons: Women and Sermon Culture." In Palgrave Encylopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing in England, ed. Victoria Burker (Palgrave, forthcoming).
——, "Sermons in Manuscript and Print: Why the Medium is the Message," in Print Culture and Communication in the Stuart World: An Introduction, ed. Kirsteen Mackenzie (Routledge, forthcoming 2025).
Helen Kemp, “Matriarchal Piety in the Seventeenth Century: Lady Barbara Hyde and Her Network of Clergy Kinsmen,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17:1 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1086/719366
Mary Morrissey, “Was John Donne a Catholic? Conversion, conformity, and early modern English confessional identities,’ Review of English Studies 74: 313 (2023), pp. 64-77. ISSN 1471-6968 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgac039
——, “London’s Long Reformation, the Corporation, and St Paul’s”, in Old St Paul’s and Culture. Early Modern Literature in History, eds. Shanyn Altman and Jonathan Buckner (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 123-46. ISBN 9783030772666 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77267-3
Lucy Underwood, “Representing England in Rome: Sermons from the Early Modern English College to Popes and Cardinals,” Reformation and Renaissance Review 23:2 (2021), pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14622459.2020.1869436
Verweij, Sebastiaan, "Reading in Crisis: Francis Russell’s Reading Records and the Beginnings of the Thirty Years’ War," Journal of British Studies, 62 (2023), 161–85. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.176
——, "Elizabeth Melville: Protestant Poetics, Publication, and Propaganda," in Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing, eds. Danielle Clarke, Sarah C. E. Ross, and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 517–30. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198860631.013.35
Hannah Yip, “What Is a Homily in Post-Reformation England,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 72: 1 (2021), pp. 53-70. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046919001763
——, “The Familial Afterlives of Parochial Sermons in Early Modern England,” Reformation 27: 2 (2022), pp. 125–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574175.2022.2125740
Publications on Sermons by Members of the GEMMS Team since 2014
Jennifer Farooq, “Preaching for the Queen: Queen Anne and English Sermon Culture, 1702-1714,” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 37: 2 (2014), pp. 159-169. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12159
——, “Dissenters and Charity Sermons, ca. 1700-1750,” in Protestant Dissent and Philanthropy, c. 1660-c. 1920, eds. Clyde Binfield, G. M. Ditchfield, and David L. Wykes (Boydell and Brewer, 2019), pp. 43-59. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783274512/protestant-dissent-and-philanthropy-in-britain-1660-1914/
Arnold Hunt, “The Succession Question in Sermons, News and Rumour,” in Doubtful and Dangerous: The Question of Succession in Late Elizabethan England, eds. Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes (Manchester University Press, 2014), pp 155-72. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719086069/
Anne James, “Preaching the Good News at Paul’s Cross: William Barlow Narrates the Fall of Essex and the Gunpowder Plot,” in Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640, eds. Torrance Kirby and P. G. Stanwood (Brill, 2014), pp. 345-60. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004262812_021
——, Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England (University of Toronto Press, 2016). https://utorontopress.com/9781442649378/poets-players-and-preachers/
Anne James and Jeanne Shami, Remembering the Dead: The Role of Manuscripts Sermons and Sermon Notes in Researching Early Modern Memorial Practice, The 2019 Congregational Lecture (The Congregational Memorial Trust Ltd. (1978), London, 2019). https://conglib.ac.uk/download-congregational-lectures-here/
——, “GEMMS (Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons 1530–1715): Confronting the Challenges of Sermons Research,” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 9(1): 21 (December 2019), pp. 1–24. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.329
Torrance Kirby, P. G. Stanwood, Mary Morrissey, and John N. King, eds., Sermons at Paul's Cross, 1520-1640 (Oxford University Press, 2017). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sermons-at-pauls-cross-1520-1640-9780198723615?cc=ca&lang=en&
Mary Morrissey, “The Paul’s Cross Jeremiad and Other Sermons of Exhortation,” in Paul's Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640, eds. Torrance Kirby and P. G. Stanwood, P.G. (Brill, 2014), pp. 421-38. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004262812_025
——, “Ornament and Repetition: Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern English Preaching,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700, eds. Kevin Killeen, Helen Smith and Rachel Willie (Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 303-316. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199686971.013.19
——, “Exhortation and Sympathy in the Paul's Cross Jeremiads,” English Studies, 98: 7-8 (2017), pp. 661-74. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2017.1339994
——, “Sermon-Notes and Seventeenth-century Manuscript Communities,” Huntington Library Quarterly, 80: 2 (2017), pp. 293-307. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2017.0017
——, “Nuts, Kernels, Wading Lambs and Swimming Elephants: Preachers and Their Handling of Biblical Texts,” in The English Bible in the Early Modern World, eds. Robert Armstrong and Tadhg Ó Hannracháin (Brill, 2018), pp. 84-103. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004347977_005
Jeanne Shami, “The Love-sick Spouse: John Stoughton’s 1624 Paul’s Cross Sermon in Context,” in Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640, eds. Torrance Kirby and P. G. Stanwood (Brill, 2014), pp. 389-410. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004262812_023
——, “The Sermon,” in The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, eds. Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox (Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 185-206. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672806.013.11
Richard Snoddy, ed., James Ussher and a Reformed Episcopal Church: Sermons and Treatises on Ecclesiology, Library of Early English Protestantism, Book 1 (The Davenant Press, 2018). https://davenantinstitute.org/ussher/
Sebastiaan Verweij, “Sermon Notes from John Donne in the Manuscripts of Francis Russell, Fourth Earl of Bedford,” English Literary Renaissance, 46: 2 (Nov 2016), pp. 278-313. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1111/1475-6757.12066
Hannah Yip, “‘The text and the occasion mingled together make a chequer-worke, a mixture of black and white, mourning and joy’: Visual Elements of the Printed Funeral Sermon in Early Modern England,” in What Is an Image in Medieval and Early Modern England?, eds. Antoinina Bevan Zlatar and Olga Timofeeva (Narr, 2017), pp. 157-82. https://www.narr.de/what-is-an-image-in-medieval-and-early-modern-england-18150-2/