The Practice of the Bible in the Middles Ages: Production, Reception, and Performance in Western Christianity, ed. Susan Boynton and Diane J. Reilly
Lucy Donkin
This interdisciplinary volume of fourteen essays presents the medieval Bible as fluid in its composition and appearance, starting-point for a variety creative, interpretative practices. Broadly speaking, first half concentrates on role liturgy structured routines monasticism. Susan Boynton sets out use biblical extracts Mass Divine Office representational rituals. Richard Gyug offers an analysis Beneventan manuscripts groups books, showing how their annotation selection corresponds to employment communal worship. Isabelle Cochelin embodied by monastic life whole. Two further chapters discuss full versions which were produced use, often context ecclesiastical reform: Diane J. Reilly covers Carolingian Romanesque lectern Bibles, Lila Yawn, Italian Giant Bibles. Where these five together give sense daily annual rhythms shaped Bible, from commemorative feasts Temporale seasonal arrangement shelves Jennifer Harris’s contribution addresses impact linear time salvation history.
The English Historical Review