In Readers' Hands

New Perspectives on Premodern Bibles in Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71411-3
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 78, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 942 g

Reihe: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

This volume explores the production, transmission, and reading practices of vernacular Bibles in early modern Europe. This varied collection of essays provides historical, book historical, literary, theological, and art historical perspectives to the movements of manuscript and printed Bibles. The contributions concern Bibles in many different languages and from across the European continent, from Ireland to Portugal. Rather than perceiving Scripture and the material carriers of Scripture as static things, this volume demonstrates how Bibles constantly acquired new meanings and functions as they moved through time and space, and were touched by the hands of makers, readers, and users.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corbellini, Sabrina

François, Wim

Hoff, Renske A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Premodern Bibles through Space and Time

Sabrina Corbellini, Renske Hoff and Wim François

1 Navigating the Biblical Text: the Biblical Summary in Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cpg 110, Read as a Hypertext

Henrike Manuwald

2 The 1528–29 Dutch Vorsterman Bibles: a Book Archeological Study of Owners and Readers

Bert Tops

3 Transformative Actions: the Fluidity of Materiality and Meaning in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Bibles

Renske Hoff

4 Vernacular Bibles and Their Catholic Readers in Sixteenth-Century France

Mack P. Holt

5 Sixteenth-Century Polish-Lithuanian Biblical Prints and Bibles between West and East

Joanna Pietrzak-Thébault

6 “The Tune Then Used”: Psalm Verse Numeration and English Bible Readers

Jeremy Specland

7 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus’s Dutch New Testament

Walter S. Melion

8 From Medieval Scripture to Missionary Word: The Bible in Portuguese from Catholic to Protestant Hands (and Back)

Herculano Alves, OFMCap and Wim François

9 Burning the Bible in Early Modern Ireland: the Rebellion of 1641

Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin

10 On Using Indicators of Book Use

Joshua Calhoun

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sabrina Corbellini, PhD (2000, University of Leiden) is Professor of History of Reading in Premodern Europe. She specialises in the reconstruction of reading activities and libraries in early medieval Europe.

Wim François, PhD and STD (2004), is Professor of Early Modern Church and Theology and Academic Librarian of the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven. He has published extensively on the place of the Bible in early modern Catholicism, especially vernacular Bible translations, Latin Bible commentaries, and biblical plays.

Renske A. Hoff, PhD (2022, University of Groningen and KU Leuven) is Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature at Utrecht University. She specialises in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century book history, with a particular focus on the use of religious manuscripts and early printed books.