Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages
Title | Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Jinty Nelson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2015-09-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1474245730 |
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.
The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages
Title | The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Boynton |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231148275 |
In this volume, specialists in literature, theology, liturgy, manuscript studies, and history introduce the medieval culture of the Bible in Western Christianity. Emphasizing the living quality of the text and the unique literary traditions that arose from it, they show the many ways in which the Bible was read, performed, recorded, and interpreted by various groups in medieval Europe. An initial orientation introduces the origins, components, and organization of medieval Bibles. Subsequent chapters address the use of the Bible in teaching and preaching, the production and purpose of Biblical manuscripts in religious life, early vernacular versions of the Bible, its influence on medieval historical accounts, the relationship between the Bible and monasticism, and instances of privileged and practical use, as well as the various forms the text took in different parts of Europe. The dedicated merging of disciplines, both within each chapter and overall in the book, enable readers to encounter the Bible in much the same way as it was once experienced: on multiple levels and registers, through different lenses and screens, and always personally and intimately.
Scripture And Pluralism
Title | Scripture And Pluralism PDF eBook |
Author | University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Symposium |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004144153 |
This book is a study of the multiplicity of ways the Bible was used by different groups during the Middle Ages. They explore different aspects of Christian Biblical Study in the face of the challenges of religious pluralism in the medieval and early-modern periods.
Making the Bible French
Title | Making the Bible French PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanette Patterson |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2022-01-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487539207 |
From the end of the thirteenth century to the first decades of the sixteenth century, Guyart des Moulins’s Bible historiale was the predominant French translation of the Bible. Enhancing his translation with techniques borrowed from scholastic study, vernacular preaching, and secular fiction, Guyart produced one of the most popular, most widely copied French-language texts of the later Middle Ages. Making the Bible French investigates how Guyart’s first-person authorial voice narrates translation choices in terms of anticipated reader reactions and frames the biblical text as an object of dialogue with his readers. It examines the translator’s narrative strategies to aid readers’ visualization of biblical stories, to encourage their identification with its characters, and to practice patient, self-reflexive reading. Finally, it traces how the Bible historiale manuscript tradition adapts and individualizes the Bible for each new intended reader, defying modern print-based and text-centred ideas about the Bible, canonicity, and translation.
Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages
Title | Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Damien Kempf |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Bible |
ISBN | 9781474245746 |
The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages
Title | The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Beryl Smalley |
Publisher | Acls History E-Book Project |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Study Aids |
ISBN | 9781597401319 |
An Introduction to the Medieval Bible
Title | An Introduction to the Medieval Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Franciscus Anastasius Liere |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2014-03-31 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 0521865786 |
An accessible account of the Bible in the Middle Ages that traces the formation of the medieval canon.