Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible

Eyal Poleg, Ph.D. (2008) in History, University of London, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. He is fascinated by the medieval (and early modern) Bible, and has recently published Understanding the Bible in Medieval England (Manchester 2013)Laura Light, C.Phil. (1981) in History, UCLA, is a cataloguer for Les Enluminures (Paris, Chicago, New York). She has published extensively on the thirteenth-century Bible, and compiled the Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Volume 1 (Binghamton 1995).

• List of IllustrationsPhotographic AcknowledgementsContributorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsEyal Poleg and Laura Light, Introduction Diane Reilly, The Bible as Bellwether: Manuscript Bibles in the Context of Spiritual, Liturgical and Educational Reform, 1000-1200Paul Saenger, The Twelfth-Century Reception of Oriental Languages and the Graphic Mise en Page of Latin Vulgate Bibles Copied in EnglandRichard Gameson, Durham’s Paris Bible and the Use of Communal Bibles in a Benedictine Cathedral Priory in the Later Middle AgesChiara Ruzzier, The miniaturization of Bible manuscripts in the XIIIth century. A comparative studyGiovanna Murano, The Epistles of St. Paul of the Convent of San Domenico (Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1545)Cornelia Linde, John Pecham on the Form of LamentationsLucie Doležalová, The Summarium Biblicum: A Biblical Tool both Popular and Obscure Laura Light, The Thirteenth-Century Pandect and the LiturgyEyal Poleg, The Interpretations of Hebrew Names in Theory and PracticeSabina Magrini, Vernacular Bibles, Biblical Quotations and the Paris Bible in Italy from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century: a First ReportSabrina Corbellini, Vernacular Bible Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy: Cultural Appropriation and Textual TransformationMargriet Hoogvliet, The Medieval Vernacular Bible in French as a Flexible Text: Selective and Discontinuous Reading PracticesGuy Lobrichon, The Story of a Success: The Bible historiale in French (1295-ca. 1500)Elizabeth Solopova, Manuscript Evidence for the Patronage, Ownership and Use of the Wycliffite BibleMatti Peikola, Table of Lections in Manuscripts of the Wycliffite BiblePeter Stallybrass, EpilogueBibliographyIndex

"a great contribution to the study of bibles from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries."– Pablo Alvarez, University of Michigan, in: Renaissance Quarterly 67/2 (Summer 2014), pp. 662-663"A major contribution to recent advancements in medieval biblical studies […]. Form and Function has, in a very important way, raised as many questions as it has answered, and has suggested many fruitful areas of research for historians of material and religious culture, book and manuscript history, art history, liturgy, exegesis, preaching and monastic reform." – Jessalynn Bird, Naperville, IL., in: Sehepunkte 14/1 (15 January 2014)"What Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible shows us, is the diversity and scope of late medieval Bibles and how this is connected to readers and users in, but also outside monastic communities. […] A worthy addition to the impressive and rapidly expanding series Library of the Written Word." – Mart van Duijn, Leiden University Libraries, in: Quaerendo 44/3 (2014), pp. 216-218