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Approaching the Bible in medieval England / Eyal Poleg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Manchester medieval studiesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781526110534
  • 1526110539
  • 9781526110527
  • 1526110520
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Approaching the Bible in medieval England.DDC classification:
  • 220.5/2009 23
LOC classification:
  • BR746 .P65 2013
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
The Bible and liturgy: Palm Sunday processions -- The Bible as talisman: textus and oath-books -- Paratext and meaning in late medieval Bibles -- Preaching the Bible: three Advent Sunday sermons.
Summary: Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history, music, literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached, revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The Bible and liturgy: Palm Sunday processions -- The Bible as talisman: textus and oath-books -- Paratext and meaning in late medieval Bibles -- Preaching the Bible: three Advent Sunday sermons.

Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history, music, literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached, revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England.

In English.