IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1707: Flavius Josephus in the Middle Ages
Thursday 8 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Département d'Histoire, Université du Québec à Montréal |
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Organiser: | Richard M. Pollard, Département d'Histoire, l'Université du Québec à Montréal |
Moderator/Chair: | Justin Lake, Department of International Studies, Texas A&M University, College Station |
Paper 1707-a | Framing Josephus: Paratexts, Annotations, and Readers in the Latin Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1707-b | Mirabilia: Narrating Miracles and Natural Phenomena through the Reception of Josephus Latinus in Petrus Comestor's Historia Scholastica (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
Abstract | Flavius Josephus (c. 37-100) was a prolific Jewish historian who wrote the history of his people in the Antiquities, and the story of the Jewish rebellion against the Romans, in which he participated. These works became extremely influential with Christian readers even before the Middle Ages, when their popularity and authority as historical and exegetical resources only grew. Nonetheless, studies of Josephus' vast medieval influence remain few and far between. This session, however, will unite the participants of two new research projects, based at UQAM and Universität Bern, who are now working to explore an exciting range of neglected questions: marginalia and paratexts in manuscripts of Josephus, and his medieval Christian reception. |