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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798568503321

Autore

Poleg Eyal

Titolo

Approaching the Bible in medieval England / Eyal Poleg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2017

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-1052-0

1-5261-1053-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Manchester medieval studies

Disciplina

220.5/2009

Soggetti

Mediation - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - To 1500

Electronic books.

England Church history 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-253) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- The Bible and liturgy : Palm Sunday processions -- The Bible as talisman : textus and oath-books -- Paratext and meaning in late medieval Bibles -- Preaching the Bible : three Advent Sunday sermons -- Conclusion -- Appendix. A survey of late medieval Bibles.

Sommario/riassunto

How did people learn their Bibles in the Middle Ages? Did church murals, biblical manuscripts, sermons or liturgical processions transmit the Bible in the same way? This book unveils the dynamics of biblical knowledge and dissemination in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. An extensive and interdisciplinary survey of biblical manuscripts and visual images, sermons and chants, reveals how the unique qualities of each medium became part of the way the Bible was known and recalled; how oral, textual, performative and visual means of transmission joined to present a surprisingly complex biblical worldview. This study of liturgy and preaching, manuscript culture and talismanic use introduces the concept of biblical mediation, a new way to explore Scriptures and society. It challenges the lay-clerical divide by demonstrating that biblical exegesis was presented to the laity in non-textual means, while the 'naked text' of the Bible remained elusive even



for the educated clergy.