The Practice Of The Bible In The Middle Ages

Author : Susan Boynton,Diane J. Reilly
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231148276

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The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages by Susan Boynton,Diane J. Reilly Pdf

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.

Author : Jinty Nelson,Damien Kempf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474245739

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Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages by Jinty Nelson,Damien Kempf Pdf

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.

Author : Beryl Smalley
Publisher : Oxford : B. Blackwell
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Bible
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000013909

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The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages by Beryl Smalley Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004248892

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Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible by Anonim Pdf

Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Latin Bibles survive in hundreds of manuscripts, one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. Their innovative layout and organization established the norm for Bibles for centuries to come. This volume is the first study of these Bibles as a cohesive group. Multi- and inter-disciplinary analyses in art history, liturgy, exegesis, preaching and manuscript studies, reveal the nature and evolution of layout and addenda. They follow these Bibles as they were used by monks and friars, preachers and merchants. By addressing Latin Bibles alongside their French, Italian and English counterparts, this book challenges the Latin-vernacular dichotomy to show links, as well as discrepancies, between lay and clerical audiences and their books. Contributors include Peter Stallybrass, Diane Reilly, Paul Saenger, Richard Gameson, Chiara Ruzzier, Giovanna Murano, Cornelia Linde, Lucie Doležalová, Laura Light, Eyal Poleg, Sabina Magrini, Sabrina Corbellini, Margriet Hoogvliet, Guy Lobrichon, Elizabeth Solopova, and Matti Peikola.

Author : Elisheva Baumgarten
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812297522

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Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Elisheva Baumgarten Pdf

In Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages, Elisheva Baumgarten examines how medieval Jewish engagement with the Bible--especially in the tellings, retellings, and illustrations of stories of women--offers a window onto aspects of the daily lives and cultural mentalités of Ashkenazic Jews in the High Middle Ages.

Author : CathleenA. Fleck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351545532

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The Clement Bible at the Medieval Courts of Naples and Avignon by CathleenA. Fleck Pdf

As a 'biography' of the fourteenth-century illustrated Bible of Clement VII, an opposition pope in Avignon from 1378-94, this social history traces the Bible's production in Naples (c. 1330) through its changing ownership and meaning in Avignon (c. 1340-1405) to its presentation as a gift to Alfonso, King of Aragon (c. 1424). The author's novel approach, based on solid art historical and anthropological methodologies, allows her to assess the object's evolving significance and the use of such a Bible to enhance the power and prestige of its princely and papal owners. Through archival sources, the author pinpoints the physical location and privileged treatment of the Clement Bible over a century. The author considers how the Bible's contexts in the collection of a bishop, several popes, and a king demonstrate the value of the Bible as an exchange commodity. The Bible was undoubtedly valued for the aesthetic quality of its 200+ luxurious images. Additionally, the author argues that its iconography, especially Jerusalem and visionary scenes, augments its worth as a reflection of contemporary political and religious issues. Its images offered biblical precedents, its style represented associations with certain artists and regions in Italy, and its past provided links to important collections. Fleck's examination of the art production around the Bible in Naples and Avignon further illuminates the manuscript's role as a reflection of the court cultures in those cities. Adding to recent art historical scholarship focusing on the taste and signature styles in late medieval and Renaissance courts, this study provides new information about workshop practices and techniques. In these two court cities, the author analyzes styles associated with different artists, different patrons, and even with different rooms of the rulers' palaces, offering new findings relevant to current scholarship, not only in art history but also in court and collection studies.

Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400833771

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Medieval Christianity in Practice by Miri Rubin Pdf

Medieval Christianity in Practice provides readers with a sweeping look at the religious practices of the European Middle Ages. Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials--each translated with an introduction and commentary by a specialist in the field--the collection illustrates the religious cycles, rituals, and experiences that gave meaning to medieval Christian individuals and communities. This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions assembles sources reflecting different genres, regions, and styles, including prayer books, chronicles, diaries, liturgical books, sermons, hagiography, and handbooks for the laity and clergy. The texts represent the practices through which Christians conducted their individual, family, and community lives, and explores such life-cycle events as birth, confirmation, marriage, sickness, death, and burial. The texts also document religious practices related to themes of work, parish life, and devotions, as well as power and authority. Enriched by expert analysis and suggestions for further reading, Medieval Christianity in Practice gives students and general readers alike the necessary background and foundations for an appreciation of the creativity and multiplicity of medieval Christian religious culture.

Author : Henri de Lubac
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467428217

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Medieval Exegesis, Vol. 1 by Henri de Lubac Pdf

Originally published in French as Exégèse médiévale, Henri de Lubac's multivolume study of medieval exegesis and theology has remained one of the most significant works of modern biblical studies. Available now for the first time in English, this long-sought-after volume is an essential addition to the library of those whose study leads them into the difficult field of biblical interpretation. The first volume in de Lubac's multivolume work begins his comprehensive historical and literary study of the way Scripture was interpreted by the church of the Latin Middle Ages. Examining the prominent commentators of the Middle Ages and their texts, de Lubac discusses the medieval approach to biblical interpretation that sought "the four senses" of Scripture, especially the dominant practice of attempting to uncover Scripture's allegorical meaning. Though Bible interpreters from the Enlightenment era on have criticized such allegorizing as part of the "naivete of the Middle Ages," de Lubac insists that a full understanding of this ancient Christian exegesis provides important insights for us today.

Author : Franciscus Anastasius Liere
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780521865784

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An Introduction to the Medieval Bible by Franciscus Anastasius Liere Pdf

An accessible account of the Bible in the Middle Ages that traces the formation of the medieval canon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004409422

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Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

In Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages, editor Jane Beal and other contributing scholars analyse the reception history of Jesus in medieval cultures (6th–15th c.), considering a wide variety of Christological images and ideas and their influence.

Author : Robert E. McNally
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597522830

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The Bible in the Early Middle Ages by Robert E. McNally Pdf

In the first part of this intriguing study, McNally treats the complex social, intellectual, and theological factors that affected biblical interpretation in the early medieval period. In the second part he provides a classified bibliography of commentaries from the period.

Author : Daniel E. Bornstein
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781451405774

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Medieval Christianity by Daniel E. Bornstein Pdf

Author : Jeanette Patterson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487539207

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Making the Bible French by Jeanette Patterson Pdf

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.

Author : Damien Kempf,Janet L. Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1474245749

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Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages by Damien Kempf,Janet L. Nelson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004329645

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A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages provides a thorough introduction to the wide range of interpretations of Job produced in the medieval Christian West, from those in exegetical and theological works to those in poetry and art.