Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England - Andrew Kraebel

Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England

Experiments in Interpretation

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
322 Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-48664-4 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
This new framework for understanding biblical commentary and translation in medieval England draws on a rich array of unpublished manuscripts, quoted and translated at length for the first time to illustrate the culture of scholastic interpretation. This will appeal to scholars and students of medieval literature, manuscripts, theology and philosophy.
Drawing extensively on unpublished manuscript sources, this study uncovers the culture of experimentation that surrounded biblical exegesis in fourteenth-century England. In an area ripe for revision, Andrew Kraebel challenges the accepted theory (inherited from Reformation writers) that medieval English Bible translations represent a proto-Protestant rejection of scholastic modes of interpretation. Instead, he argues that early translators were themselves part of a larger scholastic interpretive tradition, and that they tried to make that tradition available to a broader audience. Translation was thus one among many ways that English exegetes experimented with the possibilities of commentary. With a wide scope, the book focuses on works by writers from the heretic John Wyclif to the hermit Richard Rolle, alongside a host of lesser-known authors, including Henry Cossey and Nicholas Trevet, and many anonymous texts. The study provides new insight into the ingenuity of medieval interpreters willing to develop new literary-critical methods and embrace intellectual risks.

Andrew Kraebel is Assistant Professor of English at Trinity University, Texas. His essays on medieval literature and commentary have appeared in Speculum, JMEMS, and Traditio, among other journals, as well as in such volumes as Interpreting Scripture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries (Cambridge, 2016) and The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship (Cambridge, forthcoming). He is the editor of the Sermons of William of Newburgh (2010), and, with Ardis Butterfield and Ian Johnson, he is editing a collection of essays on Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge, forthcoming).

1. Interpretive theories and traditions; 2. Eclectic hermeneutics: biblical commentary in Wyclif's Oxford; 3. Richard Rolle's scholarly devotion; 4. Moral experiments: Middle English Matthew commentaries.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 17 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 235 mm
Gewicht 650 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-108-48664-9 / 1108486649
ISBN-13 978-1-108-48664-4 / 9781108486644
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