Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England - Experiments in Interpretation

This new framework for understanding biblical commentary and translation in medieval England draws on a rich array of unpublished manuscripts, quoted and translated at length for the first time to illustrate the culture of scholastic interpretation. This will appeal to scholars and students of medieval literature, manuscripts, theology and philosophy.

List of contents

1. Interpretive theories and traditions; 2. Eclectic hermeneutics: biblical commentary in Wyclif's Oxford; 3. Richard Rolle's scholarly devotion; 4. Moral experiments: Middle English Matthew commentaries.

About the author

Andrew Kraebel is Assistant Professor of English at Trinity University, Texas. His essays on medieval literature and commentary have appeared in Speculum, JMEMS, and Traditio, among other journals, as well as in such volumes as Interpreting Scripture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries (Cambridge, 2016) and The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship (Cambridge, forthcoming). He is the editor of the Sermons of William of Newburgh (2010), and, with Ardis Butterfield and Ian Johnson, he is editing a collection of essays on Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge, forthcoming).

Summary

This new framework for understanding biblical commentary and translation in medieval England draws on a rich array of unpublished manuscripts, quoted and translated at length for the first time to illustrate the culture of scholastic interpretation. This will appeal to scholars and students of medieval literature, manuscripts, theology and philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Kraebel, Andrew (Trinity University Kraebel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9781108708128
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70812-8
• No. of pages: 323
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, CE period up to c 1500, Archaeology, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, History and Archaeology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE