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Bede: A Biblical Miscellany (Paperback)
Bede; Translated by William Trent Foley; Commentary by William Trent Foley; Translated by Arthur G. Holder; Commentary by Arthur G. Holder
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Cited today as the first historian of the English, the Venerable
Bede (ca. 673-735) was known in his own time primarily as a
commentator on Holy Scripture. Taking seriously the insights of
both ancient schools of biblical exegesis, the Antiochene and he
Alexandrian, Bede was as proficient at explaining the plain sense
of difficult scriptural texts as he was at discerning the
figurative or allegorical significance.
This volume contains six of Bede's shorter biblical writings,
most of which appear here in translation for the first time. Taken
together, they reveal his amazing versatility. On Tobias shows his
skill as an allegorist, while On the Resting Places, Thirty
Questions on the Book of Kings, and On Eight Questions reveal his
fascination with the logical puzzles posed by Scripture's literal
sense. On the Holy Places is an exegetical tool conveying
information about the geography of the Holy Land that Bede
considered indispensable for an adequate understanding of biblical
revelation. In a letter On What Isaiah Says, Bede refutes a
heretical understanding of Scripture in an attempt to build up the
faith of the Church.
This volume contains the first English translation of Bede's
allegorical commentary on the tabernacle of Moses, which he
interpreted as a symbolic figure of the Christian Church. Written
in the early 720s at the monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow in
Northumbria, On the Tabernacle (De tabernaculo) was the first
Christian literary work devoted entirely to this topic and the
first verse-by-verse commentary on the relevant portions of the
Book of Exodus. On the Tabernacle was one of Bede's most popular
works, appearing in a great many manuscripts from every period of
the Middle Ages.
Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the 'taming
of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in
light of recent historical work on the position of early modern
women in society. Its essays address shrew narratives as an
extended cultural dialogue debating issues of gender and sexual
politics.
This book examines six plays by Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost,
Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, and The
Tempest) as dramatizations of the Renaissance court in its
developing history - a history searched by Shakespeare to disclose
its most characteristic gains and losses. For these plays do not
simply celebrate Tudor and Stuart rule: they scrutinize it too, in
the centre of its institutional theatre of power, the court. This
book shows how, if the plays came into the court, the court also
came into the plays, with its most salient features - its
competitiveness, its inner tensions and its contradictions, its
language, its cultural life and its entertainments - exposed to the
scrutiny of an art-form that proved itself to be a new mode of
historical understanding.
This book examines six plays by Shakespeare ("Love's Labour's
Lost", "Hamlet", "As You Like It", "Twelfth Night", "The Winter's
Tale" and "The Tempest") as dramatizations of the Renaissance Court
in its developing history - a history searched by Shakespeare to
disclose its most characteristic gains and losses. For these plays
do not simply celebrate Tudor and Stuart rule: they scrutinize it
too, in the centre of its institutional theatre of power, the
Court. This book shows how, if the plays came into Court, the Court
also came into the plays, with its most salient features - its
competitiveness, its inner tensions and its contradictions, its
language, its cultural life and its entertainments - exposed to the
scrutiny of an art-form that proved itself to be a new mode of
historical understanding.
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The Way to Love (Hardcover)
Matt Boswell; Foreword by Arthur G. Holder
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R999
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The Way to Love (Paperback)
Matt Boswell; Foreword by Arthur G. Holder
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R616
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