Full Description
This volume explores the production, transmission, and reading practices of vernacular Bibles in early modern Europe. This varied collection of essays provides historical, book historical, literary, theological, and art historical perspectives to the movements of manuscript and printed Bibles. The contributions concern Bibles in many different languages and from across the European continent, from Ireland to Portugal. Rather than perceiving Scripture and the material carriers of Scripture as static things, this volume demonstrates how Bibles constantly acquired new meanings and functions as they moved through time and space, and were touched by the hands of makers, readers, and users.
Contents
Contents
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Premodern Bibles through Space and Time
Sabrina Corbellini, Renske Hoff and Wim François
1 Navigating the Biblical Text: the Biblical Summary in Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cpg 110, Read as a Hypertext
Henrike Manuwald
2 The 1528-29 Dutch Vorsterman Bibles: a Book Archeological Study of Owners and Readers
Bert Tops
3 Transformative Actions: the Fluidity of Materiality and Meaning in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Bibles
Renske Hoff
4 Vernacular Bibles and Their Catholic Readers in Sixteenth-Century France
Mack P. Holt
5 Sixteenth-Century Polish-Lithuanian Biblical Prints and Bibles between West and East
Joanna Pietrzak-Thébault
6 "The Tune Then Used": Psalm Verse Numeration and English Bible Readers
Jeremy Specland
7 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus's Dutch New Testament
Walter S. Melion
8 From Medieval Scripture to Missionary Word: The Bible in Portuguese from Catholic to Protestant Hands (and Back)
Herculano Alves, OFMCap and Wim François
9 Burning the Bible in Early Modern Ireland: the Rebellion of 1641
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
10 On Using Indicators of Book Use
Joshua Calhoun
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