Vernacular Bible and Religious Reform in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-90-429-3431-3
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 287, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theolo

The central focus of this book concerns vernacular Bibles in various

regions of (late) medieval and early modern Europe, as well as the

religious and cultural circumstances in which these books found their

origin. The contributions represent a cross-section of several research

traditions that show an interest in vernacular Bibles. The volume

includes articles that demonstrate how vernacular Bibles were liable to

censorship measures, viz. Francesca Tasca’s contribution on Peter Valdès

of Lyons, and Gigliola Fragnito’s on post-Tridentine Catholic Europe.

Other essays, in contrast, inspired by a social-historical approach,

emphasize that laypeople in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era

found ways to read the Bible and other religious works ‘anyway’ and that

they were hardly hindered by bans instituted by ecclesiastical or

secular governments. Two authors who take this position are Andrew C.

Gow and Margriet Hoogvliet, who also question the paradigm that the

Protestant Reformation was the first to open the Bible to the laity.

Suzan A. Folkerts brings this intuition into practice by studying

printers’ choices as well as provenance data in books containing the

Epistle and Gospel readings from Mass published between 1450 and 1550 in

the Netherlands. This volume not only contains contributions focusing

upon Western European vernacular Bibles but also pays attention to the

Bible in Romania ( Emanual Contac, Eugen and Lucia-Gabriela Munteanu)

and Scandinavia (Jonatan Pettersson). In this regard, attention is paid

to the (pre)confessional character and literary choices that are

constitutive for the text. The confessional Era and its implications in

the political field are central to Elizabeth Hodgson’s study of ‘David’s

Psalms’ in Reformation England and France/Switzerland. The

‘post-confessional’ eighteenth century Enlightenment Bible – rooted in

the Catholic tradition – by Isaac-Joseph Berruyer is the object of an

essay by Daniel J. Watkins. Finally, Kees Schepers devotes a study to 33

drawings made by the Brussels canon regular Gielis vander Hecken.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Den Hollander, Aa

François, W.

Francois, W.

den Hollander, A.A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte