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Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Medieval History
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For earlier medieval Christians, the Bible was the book of guidance
above all others, and the route to religious knowledge, used for
all kinds of practical purposes, from divination to models of
government in kingdom or household. This book's focus is on how
medieval people accessed Scripture by reading, but also by hearing
and memorizing sound-bites from the liturgy, chants and hymns, or
sermons explicating Scripture in various vernaculars. Time, place
and social class determined access to these varied forms of
Scripture. Throughout the earlier medieval period, the Psalms
attracted most readers and searchers for meanings. This book's
contributors probe readers' motivations, intellectual resources and
religious concerns. They ask for whom the readers wrote, where they
expected their readers to be located and in what institutional,
social and political environments they belonged; why writers chose
to write about, or draw on, certain parts of the Bible rather than
others, and what real-life contexts or conjunctures inspired them;
why the Old Testament so often loomed so large, and how its
law-books, its histories, its prophetic books and its poetry were
made intelligible to readers, hearers and memorizers. This book's
contributors, in raising so many questions, do justice to both
uniqueness and diversity.
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