The twenty-four essays collected in this volume, which grew out of a conference organised by Torrance Kirby and P. G. Stanwood at McGill University in 2012, offer a wide-ranging view of one of the most important pulpits in early modern England. In recent years, the study of preaching and sermons (once a sorely neglected topic of Tudor-Stuart history) has gained new attention from scholars interested in the religious politics of the period. The present collection continues this interdisciplinary project of sermon studies by offering up exciting new work by both early-career and distinguished scholars of religion, history and English on the sermons preached at Paul's Cross. As the editors argue in the introduction, what connects all these essays is a recognition and interest in the very public setting of these sermons. As a large open-air venue – a kind of public theatre, as several of the authors note – Paul's Cross was an intersectional space where both official proclamations and popular grievances could be heard and where sermons were preached weekly almost within earshot of the heart of London's publishing and bookselling trade. Although the collection begins with fascinating discussions of the architecture and acoustics of Paul's Cross based on archaeological surveys and computer models, it quickly falls back into the more familiar vein of textual analysis. Some chapters analyse specific types of Paul's Cross sermons or shed light on recently rediscovered sermon texts; others attempt to recreate the contexts of well-known sermons by Fisher, Latimer, Jewel, Bancroft or Donne. Some of the more innovative essays ask how sermons interacted with other kinds of texts and performances. Although more interested in the rhetoric of texts than the working of institutions (something Mary Morrissey covers amply in her recent monograph on the Paul's Cross sermons), the articles in this collection represent the best of recent scholarship on early modern sermons. They speak with many voices, but eloquently remind us of the sermon's power to persuade.