‘Ye that pasen by pe Weiye’: time, topology and the medieval use of Lamentations 1.12
Isabel Davis
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Acknowledgements I am grateful Laura Salisbury, Richard Rowland, Anthony Bale, the anonymous reader at Textual Practice as well organizers and delegates who attended a fruitful conference on Medieval Skin Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, for their many generous suggestions. Notes Quotations from Bible are taken Latin Vulgate (http://vulsearch.sourceforge.net/); unless otherwise stated English translation is Douay–Rheims Bible, which also available through vulsearch. For an overview question of authorship, see S. K. Soderland, ‘Lamentations’, in International Standard Encyclopedia, Geoffrey W. Bromiley (ed.) revised by Melvin Grove Kyle (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1915, edition 1929), pp. 65–68 (pp. 65–66). Survival main theme most recent full study Lamentations. Tod Linafelt, Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, Protest Afterlife Biblical Book (Chicago: The University Chicago Press, 2000). Lamentations part affective poetic treasury scripture, A. J. Minnis, ‘Literary Theory Discussions Formae Tractandi Theologians’, New Literary History, 11 (1979), 133–145 (p. 144). relationship between this typological connection Cistercian Franciscan affectivity has been suggested Ronald L. Martinez, ‘Mourning Canzoniere: Lessons Lamentations, Modern Language Notes, 118 (2003), 1–45 4, footnote 10). Paschasius Radbertus, Threnos sive Lamentationes Jeremiae, Patrologia cursus completes […] Series Latina, Jacques-Paul Migne (ed.), 221 vols (Paris: Migne, 1844–64), 120, col. 1063A (hereafter abbreviated PL). See, parts Radbertus’ commentary they were used Glossa Ordinaria, Gilbert Universalis, Ordinaria Ieremie Prophete: Prothemata et Liber I: A Critical edition, ed. trans. Alexander Andrée, Acta Universitatas Stockholmiensis, 52 (Stockholm: Almquist Wiksell, 2005), p. 163. Threnos, PL 1061C. This distinction narratives that ‘of time’ those more specifically ‘about discussed Paul Ricoeur and, after him, Mark Currie. Currie, About Time: Narrative, Fiction Philosophy Time (Edinburgh: Edinburgh 2007), 1–2. modern definition history trauma, Ruth Leys, Trauma: Genealogy 2000), e.g. 2. discussion tradition way modes scriptural reading considered relation time idea first explicitly Willam Alton c. 1259–60, Athanasius Sulavik, ‘Principia Introitus Thirteenth-Century Christian Exegesis with Related Texts’, La Bibbia del XIII secolo. Storia testo, storia dell'esegesi, Giuseppe Cremascoli Francesco Santi (eds) (Florence: SISMEL Edizioni Galluzzo, 2004), 269–311 283–84). Michel Serres Bruno Latour, Conversations Science, Culture, Time, Roxanne Lapidus (Ann Arbor: Michigan 1995). fuller topology Serres' interest it, ‘Michel Serres: Fiction, Shape Relation’, Science Studies, 33 (2006), 30–52 33) Steven Connor, ‘Topologies: Shapes Thought’, Anglistik, 15 (2004), 105–117 106). Nagel Christopher Wood, ‘Toward Model Renaissance Anachronism’, Art Bulletin, 87 (2005), 403–415 408). ‘Towards 408. They claim, though, property only artefacts not texts. concerned here particularly poetry England but influential other European literature. example see, Italian context, Beatrice: Rhetoric Threnodi Vita nuova’, 113 (1998), 1–29 (passim) Laura’ passim. Siegfried Wenzel, Verses Sermons: ‘Fasciculus Morum’ its Middle Poems (Cambridge MA: Academy America, 1978), 122. Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessiones, XIII, ch. xv, 32, cols. 0851-0852. comes from: Augustine, Confessions, Henry Chadwick (Oxford: Oxford 1991). Psalm numbered 103 Bible. Whilst Augustine reads ‘pellis’ Wycliffite reliance Vulgate, renders ‘skyn’, Hebrew text properly translated ‘curtain’. Thus King James, Geneva Great Bibles all read Douay Old Testament offers something concession reading: ‘pavillion’. Augustinus, col 0851; 282. ‘membrana’, M. T. Clanchy, From Memory Written Record, 1066–1307, 2nd edn Blackwell, 1993), 120. Pellis could mean clothing things made out skin. See entry Charlton Lewis Charles Short, Dictionary Clarendon, 1962). De Genesi ad litteram, II, 9, dist. 22; 34, 0271; On Genesis, Edmund Hill (New York: City 2002), 202–203. Giorgio Agamben, Remains: Commentary Letter Romans, Patricia Dailey (Stanford, CA: Stanford 79. Bk XI, 8, 0812; 225. 26, 33, 0822; 239–240. 16. ninth-century Carolingian E. Ann Matter, ‘The Commentaries Hrabanus Maurus Radbertus’, Traditio, 38 (1982), 137–163 (passim). list commentaries Philip Alexander, Targum (Collegeville MN: Liturgical 69–70, 66. musical setting liturgical use Nils Holger Petersen, ‘Liturgical Representation Late Piety’, Liturgy Arts Ages: Studies Honour C. 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