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Why not try these old (in one case extremely old) discussions? G.R.Owst Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England (Oxford: Blackwell, 1961); Marianne Briscoe 'Preaching and Medieval English Drama' in Contexts for Early English Drama edited Marianne Briscoe and John Coldewey (Bloomington IA; Indiana UP, 1989) pages 150--182 [good bibliography]; Michael Baxandall Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford UP, 1988) <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Painting-Experience-Fifteenth-Century-Italy-Paperbacks/dp/019282144X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259925954&sr=1-1> -- excellent on gesture, -- and you can still get it on Amazon! Rosemary Woolf and Glynne Wickham also treat of it briefly. As a topic it was very much about in the 1980s, and it might be worthwile searching catalogues on that basis. Been there, seen that! If you are at Bristol, Valentina, why didn't you ask Professor Pamela M. King? Meg Twycross Professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies, Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University, LANCASTER LA1 4YD