The Glossed Bible
Lesley Smith
The Glossed Bible is the meeting place for all themes of this volume. Its history encompasses selection a particular text; its content inseparable from format; it keystone biblical interpretation; poses difficult questions about way was used; and confluence text glosses makes physical statement transformed. For schoolmen twelfth thirteenth centuries, sacra pagina – sacred page as scripture known, consisted not merely in on own, but surrounded by panoply post-biblical glosses. Together, they were included defined Hugh St Victor: Old New Testaments, decrees canon law writings fathers doctors church. Bibles with short glosses, or explanations, written margins, new; Gloss (Glossa Glosa Latin) produced century took basic concept turned into ubiquitous scholastic world. How why happened tangled tale, which we will need to unravel without oversimplifying, there are genuine complexities story.
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