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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
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-aFraming Josephus: Paratexts, Annotations, and Readers in the Latin Manuscripts
(Language: English)
Judith Mania, Project '"Lege Iosephum!" Reading Josephus in the Latin Middle Ages', Universität Bern
Index terms: Biblical Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1707-bMirabilia: Narrating Miracles and Natural Phenomena through the Reception of Josephus Latinus in Petrus Comestor's Historia Scholastica
(Language: English)
Sara Moscone, Institut für Historische Theologie Universität Bern
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.