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Studies in the Reception of the Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor: The Schwarzwalder Predigten, the Weltchronik of Rudolf von Ems, the Scolastica

Studies in the Reception of the Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor: The Schwarzwalder Predigten, the Weltchronik of Rudolf von Ems, the Scolastica

Sherwood-Smith, C. Maria

Paperback

Series: Medium Aevum Monographs, New, Book 20

PhilosophyMedieval & Renaissance HistoryBible Studies

ISBN10: 0907570135
ISBN13: 9780907570134
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jan 1 2000
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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