In ‘Slay them not”, Linda Stone focusses on the existence and use of anti-Jewish polemic, and its roots, present in the three closely-linked twelfth-century glosses on the Psalms, written by Anselm of
The Codex Amiatinus and its “Sister” Bibles examines the full Bibles made at Wearmouth–Jarrow under Ceolfrith (d. 716) and Bede (d. 735), and the circumstances of their production. Amiatinus is the ol
In In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (c. 1200-1550) Pietro Delcorno reconstructs how this biblical parable became, particularly through preaching, a key mast
This volume provides an edition, translation and extensive study of a unique anonymous medieval peshat commentary on Song of Songs, emanating from Northern France in the late twelfth century.
The Uses of the Bible in Crusader Sources seeks to understand the ideology and spirituality of crusading by exploring the biblical imagery and exegetical interpretations that were woven together to fo
In Out of the Cloister, Suzanne LaVere uncovers a particular strain of interpretation of the biblical Song of Songs in and around 12th and 13th-century Paris that champions an active life of preaching
In Illuminating Moses: A History of Reception, readers discover the roles of Moses from the Exodus to the Renaissance--law-giver, leader, prophet, writer, man of God--and their impact on Jewish and Ch
The Glossa Ordinaria a medieval compilation of biblical texts surrounded by commentaries on them by Church Fathers and medieval scholars, has long been taken for granted as a tool used throughout the
The articles in this volume explore early-Christian and medieval biblical exegesis as the site of discourse on theological, philosophical and political issues and of the hermeneutics investigating the
Forms and Concepts is the first comprehensive study of the central role of concepts and concept acquisition in the Platonic tradition. It sets up a stimulating dialogue between Plato s innatist approa
