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Medieval Commentary and Exegesis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Medieval Commentary and Exegesis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Gillhammer, Cosima Clara
Minnis, Alastair J.
Southgate, Audrey

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1843847671
ISBN13: 9781843847670
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: Feb 24 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Interdisciplinary study of the medieval commentary tradition, covering a range of sources from the Wycliffite Bible and French Marian Lyric to John Lydgate and Anselm of Canterbury.

Textual and material survivals from across medieval Europe testify to a pervasive commentary culture on Scripture. The biblical text becomes a central object of explication and comment, generating a variety of interpretive texts and genres. But precisely because it is so ubiquitous, medieval commentary can also prove elusive, requiring perspectives from different disciplines. How can we define commentary, and how does it develop and function in different linguistic and geographical areas? What role do commentaries play in the formation and reformulation of personal and national identities across the period? How can contemporary scholars best approach this fundamental genre of the medieval world?

Exploring these among many other questions, this volume revises and refines our current understanding of the intellectual, cultural, and literary dynamics of the medieval commentary tradition. Contributors consider matters such asauthority, patronage, readership, textual genesis, and material contexts of commentary, as well as the absences and lacunae in our knowledge, and how we might take these into account from today's perspective. Expansive in their chronological, methodological, and disciplinary scope, the chapters here illuminate the origins and forms of commentary from Late Antiquity to the late medieval period in Western Europe, extending across Hebrew, Latin and vernacular texts, and examine a wide range of literary and cultural artefacts, from single-authored works to manuscript compilations.

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