IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1226: Interpreting Medieval Exegesis: Methods, Contexts, and Contents of Biblical Commentary, III - Sources and Influences
Wednesday 11 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | Ineke van 't Spijker, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ineke van 't Spijker, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1226-a | What Is Augustinian in Richard of Saint Victor's Teaching on Contemplation? (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Theology |
| Paper 1226-b | Christian Hebraism in 13th-Century Oxford (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Theology |
| Paper 1226-c | From Literal Sense to Antiquarianism: Biblical Exegesis from Peter Comestor to Bishop Ussher (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Theology |
| Abstract | This session looks at continuing influences throughout the Middle Ages and beyond, in the work of commentators and exegetes. The first paper intends to identify the Augustinian influence, long recognized but not clearly analysed, in the writings of Richard of Saint-Victor, enabling a new perspective on Augustine’s mysticism itself. An overview of the exegetical tradition of the Book of Jeremiah up to the 13th century will be followed by a more detailed discussion of the interpretation of this text in 12- and 13-century exegesis, in the Glossa ordinaria, and in the work of Andrew of St Victor, Rupert of Deutz, Peter the Chanter and Stephen Langton. The final paper looks at the continuing influence of 12th-century literal exegesis in early-modern conceptions of history, antiquity, and the age of the earth. |