Transcultural approaches to the Bible : exegesis and historical writing in the medieval worlds / edited by Matthias M. Tischler and Patrick S. Marschner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tischler, Matthias M. (Matthias Martin), editor.

Marschner, Patrick S., editor.

Series:

Transcultural medieval studies ; volume 1.

Transcultural medieval studies ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Influence--Medieval civilization.

Bible.

Civilization, Medieval.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.

History.

Europe--Church history--600-1500.

Europe.

Church history.

Genre:

Church history.

Physical Description:

viii, 253 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Transcultural approaches to the Bible : exegesis and historical writing across medieval worlds

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2021]

Summary:

This volume, the first in the new series 'Transcultural Medieval Studies', draws together scholars from around the world to offer new insights into the importance and role of the Bible across the varied cultures of medieval Europe. The papers gathered here take a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to the subject, focusing on the biblical background of perceptions of the religious and cultural "Self " and "Other" in the Mediterranean, in Latin Europe, and in the Baltic. In doing so, the contributions identify commonalities and differences of the "uses of the Bible" in these various worlds, combining and contrasting studies on Bible manuscripts, their exegesis, and their use for historical writing.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Bible, Exegesis, and Historiography in the Medieval Worlds: Crossing Histories from a Transcultural Point of View / Patrick S. Marschner

The Iberian World

2. Reframing Salvific History in a Transcultural Society: Iberian Bibles as Models of Historical, Prophetic, and Eschatological Writing / Matthias M. Tischler

3. The Bible of Vic (1268): Textual and Theological Value of its Glosses in the Context of the Barcelona Disputation (1263) / Eulalia Vernetipons

4. The Chronicle of Sampiro, the Arabs, and the Bible: Eleventh-Century Christian-Iberian Strategies of Identifying the Cultural and Religious `Other' / Patrick S. Marschner

Latin Europe and the Near East

5. Scripture, Hierarchy, and Social Control: The Uses of the Bible in the Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Chronicles and Chansons of the Crusades / Sini Kangas

6. Condemned Sisters, Effeminate Brothers, and Damned Heretics: Ezekiel 23 and the Negotiation of Clerical Sexuality in the Thirteenth Century / Lydia M. Walker

The Baltic World

7. How do the `Livs' Fit into Sacred History? Identifying the Cultural `Other' in the Earliest Latin Sources Depicting the Livonian Crusade / Peter Fraundorfer

8. Wolves in the Wilderness: Biblical Typology and the Envisioning of Lithuanian Pagans in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries / Stefan Donecker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9782503592855

2503592856

OCLC:

1259545759