The politics of interpretation : the Bible and the formation of legal authority in the early Middle Ages / edited by Gerda Heydemann and Rosamond McKitterick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heydemann, Gerda, editor.

McKitterick, Rosamond, editor.

Series:

Quellen und Forschungen zum Recht im Mittelalter ; Bd. 17.

Quellen und Forschungen zum Recht im Mittelalter ; Band 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law, Medieval--Congresses.

Law, Medieval.

Bible and law--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.

Bible and law.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.

Bible.

Christianity and law--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.

Christianity and law.

Canon law--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.

Canon law.

Physical Description:

299 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Ostfildern : Jan Thorbecke Verlag, [2025]

Summary:

"Early medieval political thought was profoundly influenced by scripture. This included law and legal culture: the Bible provided early medieval elites with the concepts and vocabularies to write about social relations and their regulation. Scriptural citations could be directly adopted as law, or cited to explain, legitimize or criticize norms. This recourse to biblical authority was not straightforward: The application of biblical models to current social problems created tensions and the need for interpretation and translation, resulting in debates about the salience and authority of biblical law. This volume brings together papers by specialists in early medieval law as well as biblical exegesis, addressing the impact of biblical thought on early medieval legal cultures from early medieval Ireland to Spain and Carolingian Francia." -- Publisher, page four of cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Rosamond McKitterick, Gerda Heydemann

Part I: The Bible in Canon Law.

Lex est emula divinitatis : zum Gebrauch biblischer Texte in Rechts sammlungen des Westgotenreiches / Cornelia Scherer

Bible, exegesis and the interpretation of law in the Collectio Hibernensis / Roy Flechner

Negotiating Biblical authority in the Collectio 250 capitulorum and the Collectio 400 capitulorum / Sven Meeder

Antiquorum canonum institutio aut sanctarum scripturarum auctoritas aut ecclesiastica consuetudo : interpreting the Christian past in Carolingian penitential discourse / Rob Meens

Part II: The Bible between Law and Politics.

The Biblical Florilegium in Paris, BnF lat. 10754 : a document of the punitive moment in the ninth century / Karl Ubl

'Just as the Law of Moses is the Law of the Jews' : Hincmar of Reims and the legal role of the Bible in late Carolingian Francia / Charles West

Tradition and innovation : the significance of the Bible in the Pseudo- Isidorian forgeries / Clara Harder

Alfred, the Bible, and the authority of written law : reassessing the Carolingian inheritance / Stefan Jurasinski

Part III: Biblical Exegesis and Legal Thought.

Subiecti estote omni humanae creaturae : changing interpretations of I Peter 2.13-14 in Insular and Carolingian exegesis / Conor O'Brien

Tres testes : witnesses in the Epitaphium Arsenii / Mayke de Jong

Bibelexegese und rechtlicher Diskurs in der Karolingerzeit : der Matthäuskommentar des Paschasius Radbertus / Gerda Heydemann

Bibel und Recht in (post)karolingischen Predigten / Maximilian Diesenberger.

Notes:

"The papers in this volume derive from a conference with the same title held at the Freie Universität Berlin in May 2017. ...papers have been substantially revised...." See, "Acknowledgements", page [301]

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783799560979

3799560971

OCLC:

1543279584

Publisher Number:

9783799560979