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Early Medieval Exegesis in the Latin West - Sources and Forms (Paperback)
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Early Medieval Exegesis in the Latin West - Sources and Forms (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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One of the significant developments in scholarship in the latter
half of the twentieth century was the awareness among historians of
ideas, historians of theology, and medievalists of the importance
of the Christian scriptures in the Latin Middle Ages. In contrast
to an earlier generation of scholars who considered the medieval
period as a 'Bible-free zone', recent investigations have shown the
central role of scripture in literature, art, law, liturgy, and
formal religious education. Indeed, to understand the Latin Middle
Ages one must understand the value they placed upon the Bible, how
they related to it, and how they studied it. However, despite the
new emphasis on the Bible's role and the place of exegesis in
medieval thought, our detailed understanding is all too meagre -
and generalisations, often imagined as valid for a period of close
to a millennium, abound. How the Scriptures were used in one
pursuit (formal theology for example relied heavily on 'allegory')
was often very different to the way they were used in another (e.g.
in history writing was interested in literal meanings), and
exegesis differed over time and with cultures. Similarly, while
most medieval writers were agreed that there were several 'senses'
within the text, the number and nature varied greatly as did the
strategies for accessing those meanings. This collection of fifteen
articles, concentrating on the early Latin middle ages, explores
this variety and highlights just how patchy has been our
understanding of medieval exegesis. We now may be aware of the
importance of the Bible, but the task of studying that phenomenon
is in its infancy.
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