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The proceedings of the international colloquium that took place in Strasbourg (20-22 November 2003) - Published with the participation of the Institute of Protestant Theology, Université Marc-Bloch, Strasbourg. Studied intensely from the 12th century to the 15th, preaching has received less attention in modern times. This indifference is paradoxical: the great reformers, such as Luther or Calvin, were not only authors whose works were well-read, but also influential preachers the Reformation may have been born of printing, but it was also the fruit of preaching. An ideal vehicle for new ideas, the eloquence of the pulpit soon became one of the main vectors of religious controversy, and remained so. In an interdisciplinary and interconfessional perspective, this collective publication explores the period from the 15th to the 19th centuries, the constants and the mutations in preaching in four principal areas of the study of homilies: sources, forms, themes and reception.