Download or read book Preaching in the Spanish Golden Age written by Hilary Dansey Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sermons are a useful barometer of a society and can tell us about many more aspects than the strictly spiritual. In this survey of preaching during the reign of Philip III (1598-1621) the subject has been approached from several different but complementary directions - historical, sociological, bibliographical, literary, and theological - in an attempt to assess the importance of sermons as the crystallization of preoccupations current in a period as complex as the Spanish Golden Age.