Kraebel Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England

Experiments in Interpretation
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-78674-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 109

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

Drawing extensively on unpublished manuscript sources, this study uncovers the culture of experimentation that surrounded biblical exegesis in fourteenth-century England.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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraebel, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Kraebel, Andrew
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).