Approaching the Bible in Medieval England

Informationen zum Autor Eyal Poleg is a Lecturer in Material History, 1200-1700, at Queen Mary University of London Klappentext Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history, music, literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached, revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. Zusammenfassung Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history! music! literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached! revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. The Bible and liturgy: Palm Sunday processions2. The Bible as talisman: textus and oath-books 3. Paratext and meaning in late medieval Bibles 4. Preaching the Bible: three Advent Sunday sermonsConclusion Appendix: A survey of Late Medieval Bibles BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Eyal Poleg, Steve Rigby, Steve Poleg Rigby, Poleg Eyal
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.06.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages
• EAN: 9781784993740
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-374-0
• Pages: 256
• Series: Manchester Medieval Studies; Manchester Medieval Studies
• Subjects: Talisman, England, bible, Latin, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Christianity, History of Religion, Medieval History, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Material Culture, Church history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Late Antiquity, medieval England, biblical manuscripts, biblical narrative, Palm Sunday, Preaching techniques, medieval Masses, liturgical spectacles, Advent Sunday sermons, oath rituals, divine authority