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Maria C. Sherwood-Smith, Studies in the Reception of the `Historia scholastica' of Peter Comestor: the `Schwarzwalder Predigten', the `Weltchronik' of Rudolf von Ems, the `Scolastica' of Jacob van Maerlant and the `Historiebijbel van 1360'.
Publication: Medium Aevum Publication Date: 22-MAR-02 Author: Lahnemann, Henrike
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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature
Medium AEvum Monographs, NS 20 (Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 2000). x + 181 pp. ISBN 0-907570-13-5. 12.00 [pounds sterling].
The Historia scholastica by Peter Comestor constituted one of the most important routes of transmission for biblical stories, commentary traditions, and authoritative sentences from the end of the twelfth century onwards. `As a work of literature the "Historia" made the Bible, which can be very strange and intractable, into a coherent, orthodox and entertaining narrative, (James H. Morey, `Peter Comestor, biblical paraphrase, and the medieval popular Bible',...
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