St. Bruno on Psalms: Precedent for Rashi?
The techniques of grammar and rhetoric – the language arts classical learning had long played an integral role in Christian Bible interpretation were a central part curriculum cathedral schools. Grammar, first liberal arts, encompassed range reading skills prominently included enarratio poetarum (i.e., interpreting poets). As important Carolingian theologian interpreter Rabanus Maurus (c. 780–856) remarked, “grammar (grammatica) is science poets” it “the origin foundation arts.” This echoes Quintillian’s characterization dual purpose grammar: recte loquendi scientia (the speaking correctly) art poets), that would be repeated throughout Middle Ages. (In Hebrew Arabic learning, by contrast, discipline termed diqduq/dayyaqut al-naḥw, respectively was more sharply circumscribed focused on phonology, morphology, syntax, all which might subsumed under scientia.) flourished anew eleventh century schools northern France, wave Bruno Carthusian key role.
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