Format:
1 Online-Ressource viii, 286 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
2014
ISBN:
9781474245746
,
9781474245715
,
9781474245739
Series Statement:
Studies in early medieval history
Content:
Introduction -- 1. Twelfth-century Notions of the Canon of the Bible -- 2. The Orator as Exegete: Cassiodorus as a Reader of the Psalms -- 3. Lay Readers of the Bible in the Carolingian Ninth Century -- 4. Jeremiah, Job, Terence and Paschasius Radbertus: Political Rhetoric and Biblical Authority in the Epitaphium Arsenii -- 5. Biblical Readings for the Night Office in Eleventh-century Germany: Reconciling Theory and Practice -- 6. 'Quid nobis cum allegoria?' The Literal Reading of the Bible in the Era of the Investiture Contest -- 7. Sibyls, Tanners and Leper Kings: Taking Notes from the Bible in Twelfth-century England -- 7. Violence, Control, Prophecy and Power in Twelfth-century France and Germany -- Further Reading -- Index.
Content:
"For earlier medieval Christians, the Bible was the book of guidance above all others, and the route to religious knowledge, used for all kinds of practical purposes, from divination to models of government in kingdom or household. This book's focus is on how medieval people accessed Scripture by reading, but also by hearing and memorizing sound-bites from the liturgy, chants and hymns, or sermons explicating Scripture in various vernaculars. Time, place and social class determined access to these varied forms of Scripture. Throughout the earlier medieval period, the Psalms attracted most readers and searchers for meanings. This book's contributors probe readers' motivations, intellectual resources and religious concerns. They ask for whom the readers wrote, where they expected their readers to be located and in what institutional, social and political environments they belonged; why writers chose to write about, or draw on, certain parts of the Bible rather than others, and what real-life contexts or conjunctures inspired them; why the Old Testament so often loomed so large, and how its law-books, its histories, its prophetic books and its poetry were made intelligible to readers, hearers and memorizers. This book's contributors, in raising so many questions, do justice to both uniqueness and diversity."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474245722
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reading the bible in the middle Ages London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015 ISBN 9781474245722
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reading the bible in the Middle Ages London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017 ISBN 9781350036284
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Bibel
;
Lektüre
;
Exegese
;
Geschichte 500-1200
DOI:
10.5040/9781474245746
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