Rewriting Scripture: Latin Biblical Versification in the Later Middle Ages
Greti Dinkova-Bruun
This article examines how five poets of the later Middle Ages (Lawrence Durham, Leonius Paris, Peter Riga, Alexander Ashby, and Petrus Episcopus) internalized transformed biblical narrative, while putting it in verse. All present process writing poetry as an intellectual spiritual exercise. More important, their aim is to create for readers a helpful tool learning true stories Bible concise compendium Christian doctrine. The divided into three parts: 1. professed reasons writing; 2. intended readership; 3. strategies. story Joseph his brothers examined order different ways which text was modified by versifiers. analysis shows that medieval writers not only repository revealed truth but also inspirational source poetic creation.
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