Out of the Cloister: Scholastic Exegesis of the Song of Songs, 1100-1250

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31198-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Commentaria

The Song of Songs was one of the most frequently interpreted biblical books of the Middle Ages. Most scholarly studies concentrate on monastic interpretations of the text, which tend to be contemplative in nature. In Out of the Cloister, Suzanne LaVere reveals a particularly scholastic strain of Song of Songs exegesis, in which cathedral school masters and mendicants in and around 12th and 13th-century Paris read the text as Christ exhorting the Church and clergy to lead an active life of preaching, instruction, conversion, and reform. This new interpretation of the Song of Songs both reflected and influenced an era of far-reaching Church reform and offered a program for secular clergy to combat heresy and apathy among the laity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lavere, Suzanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Über Autor(innen)

Suzanne LaVere, Ph.D. (2009), Northwestern University, is an Associate Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. She researches Church reform in the High Middle Ages, focusing on scriptural exegesis and preaching. This is her first monograph.