Studies in the Reception of the Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor: The Schwarzwalder Predigten, the Weltchronik of Rudolf von Ems, the Scolastica

The Historia Scholastica (circa 1170) mingles biblical narrative, Jewish legends, and commentary, and was a popular source of biblical material for authors until the Reformation. Maria Sherwood-Smith gives an introduction to the sources and transmission of the Latin work before investigating its reception in detail in two thirteenth-century German works, the Schwarzw lder Predigten and the Weltchronik of Rudolf von Ems. Briefer analyses of Jacob van Maerlant's Scholastica and the Historiebijbel van 1360 provide further context. Looking in this way at the different functions the work fulfils for later authors, one discerns a growing awareness of the distinction between it and the text of the Bible. It is suggested that this enhances the Historia Scholastica's reputation as a safeguard of orthodoxy.

Author: C. Maria Sherwood-Smith
Publisher: Ssmll
Published: 01/01/2000
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780907570134

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