Frater Petrus, Collationes de tempore (Fourteenth Century)

Frater Petrus, Collationes de tempore (Fourteenth Century)

Author: Daniel Nodes

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-09-06

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 9004132503

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A new collection of medieval Mendicant sermons. The preacher’s handling of themes drawn from the liturgical readings, Advent to Easter, achieves a competent fusion of exegetical traditions and preaching innovation.


The Psalms Commentary of Gilbert of Poitiers

The Psalms Commentary of Gilbert of Poitiers

Author: Theresa Gross-Diaz

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 900424722X

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This book makes available to scholars the unpublished proto-scholastic Commentary on the Psalms, composed by one of the outstanding figures of the early twelfth century, Gilbert of Poiters (Gilbert Porreta). The commentary had its origins in the atmosphere of experimentation which characterized the schools of Laon, Chartres and Paris in the first decades of the century. Its unique mise en page, its methodology and its connection to other texts - especially glossed classical texts, the Glossa ordinaria and the writings of Peter Lombard - are explored. Gilbert's Commentary is a text critical for the understanding of the development of the discipline of theology in the twelfth century schools.


"Slay them not": Twelfth-Century Christian-Jewish Relations and the Glossed Psalms

Author: Linda M.A. Stone

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-03-27

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 900439236X

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Linda Stone’s analysis of the anti-Jewish polemic present in three closely-linked twelfth-century Psalms glosses brings a new source to the study of medieval Christian-Jewish relations. She reveals how its presence, within the parva, media and magna glosses compiled respectively, by Anselm of Laon, Gilbert of Poitiers and Peter Lombard, illuminates the various societal challenges facing the twelfth-century Church. She shows that, rather than a twelfth-century phenomenon, using such anti-Jewish terminology in Christian Psalms exegesis was a long-standing reflection of Christianity’s ambivalence towards Judaism. Moreover, demonstrating how her analysis of anti-Jewish terminology unravelled the Psalm glosses’ textual relationships, she suggests that analysis of its presence in other glossed books of the Bible could offer a further resource for uncovering their complexities.


Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

Author: John O. Ward

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-12-24

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 9004368078

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Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400-1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE is a completely updated version of John Ward’s much-used doctoral thesis of 1972, and is the definitive treatment of this fundamental aspect of medieval and rhetorical culture. It is commonly believed that medieval writers were interested only in Christian truth, not in Graeco-Roman methods of ‘persuasion’ to whatever viewpoint the speaker / writer wanted. Dr Ward, however, investigates the content of well over one thousand medieval manuscripts and shows that medieval writers were fully conscious of and much dependent upon Graeco-Roman rhetorical methods of persuasion. The volume then demonstrates why and to what purpose this use of classical rhetoric took place.


A New World in a Small Place

A New World in a Small Place

Author: Robert Brentano

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9780520080768

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00 Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378. Combing through a cache of previously ignored documents stored in a tower of the cathedral, he uses wills, litigation proceedings, fiscal accounts, and other records to reconstruct the daily life of the diocese. Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378. Combing through a cache of previously ignored documents stored in a tower of the cathedral, he uses wills, litigation proceedings, fiscal accounts, and other records to reconstruct the daily life of the diocese.