Author : Maria Sherwood-Smith
Publisher : Medium Aevum Monographs, New Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Studies in the Reception of the Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor by : Maria Sherwood-Smith
Download or read book Studies in the Reception of the Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor written by Maria Sherwood-Smith and published by Medium Aevum Monographs, New Series. This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historia Scholastica (circa 1170) mingles biblical narrative, Jewish legends, and commentary, and was a popular source of biblical material for authors until the Reformation. Maria Sherwood-Smith gives an introduction to the sources and transmission of the Latin work before investigating its reception in detail in two thirteenth-century German works, the Schwarzwälder Predigten and the Weltchronik of Rudolf von Ems. Briefer analyses of Jacob van Maerlant's Scholastica and the Historiebijbel van 1360 provide further context. Looking in this way at the different functions the work fulfils for later authors, one discerns a growing awareness of the distinction between it and the text of the Bible. It is suggested that this enhances the Historia Scholastica's reputation as a safeguard of orthodoxy.