Description
Producing Christian Culture takes as its thread the 'interpretative genres' within which medieval people engaged with the Bible. Contributors to the volume present specific material as a case study illustrative of a specific genre, whether devotional, homiletical, scholarly, or controversial. The chronological range moves from St Augustine to the use of gospel texts in polemical writing of the first two decades of the 1500s, with focal sections on early medieval Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian theology, the scholastic turn of the High Middle Ages, and the influence of vernacular writing in the later Middle Ages. The tremendous range and vitality of medieval responses to biblical texts are highlighted within the studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I
Inheritances
1 Augustine, rape, and the hermeneutics of love
MELANIE WEBB
PART II
Learning and teaching through Scripture
2 Lindisfarne and the gospels: the art of interpretation
FRANCIS WATSON
3 Scholarly practices: the Eusebian canon tables in the Hiberno-Latin tradition
MATTHEW R. CRAWFORD
4 Historia and littera in Carolingian commentaries on St Matthew: elements for an inventory of exegetical vocabulary in the medieval Latin Church
ELISABETH MÉGIER
PART III
The changing roles of Scripture
5 Scripture and the changing culture of theology in the High Middle Ages
GILES E. M. GASPER
6 Secretum internae uisionis: the introspective reader and the pilgrim soul in William’s Commentary
SIGBJØRN SØNNESYN
7 Conceiving the Word: the Virgin Mary and the Gospel of Luke in Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias
GEMMA WAIN
PART IV
Scripture and the world
8 Manifest, as in the gospels: some approaches to literal exposition of the psalms
THERESA GROSS-DIAZ
9 The gospels and the papacy in the Late Middle Ages
IAN CHRISTOPHER LEVY
Index
