With "the Kisses of the Mouth": Recent Works on the Song of SongsThe Song of Songs: A Commentary on the Book of Canticles or the Song of Songs. Roland E. Murphy , O. Carm , S. Dean McBride, Jr.Hermeneia. A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Roland E. Murphy , O. CarmThe Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity. E. Ann MatterThe Song of Songs in the Middle Ages. Ann W. Astell

Resumo: Neste trabalho, temos como proposta refletir sobre o processo de construção da relação entre texto bíblico e seus comentadores na Alta Idade Média. Nosso objetivo é pensar esta escritura na sua historicidade, ou seja, seus usos sociais e suas possibilidades de leitura. Para tanto, partiremos da análise do Comentário ao Apocalipse do Africano Ticônio (cerca de 328), um dos primeiros autores a analisar este livro, e do seu trabalho Liber Regylarum, no qual propõe sete preceitos a partir dos quais os textos bíblicos deveriam ser interpretados. Embora este autor tenha sido considerado herético pela Igreja Romana, o uso das suas regras ganhou um reconhecido lugar entre os comentaristas bíblicos na Idade Média, o que pode ser percebido na obra de autores cristãos como Santo Agostinho, São Jeronimo, Cesário de Arlés, Beda e Beato de Liébana.Palavras-chave: Comentário Bíblico – Práticas de leitura – Cristianismo Medieval. Abstract: In this paper, we will try to reflect how the relationship between the biblical text and its commentators is building in the High Middle Ages. Our aim is to think this scripture in its historicity, that is, its social uses and possibilities of reading. For this, we begin with the analysis of the Tyconius’ Commentary on the Apocalypse (about 328), one of the first authors to analyze this book and your work entitled Liber Regylarum, in which he proposes seven principles according to which the biblical texts should be interpreted. Although this author has been considered heretical by the Roman Church, the use of these rules has gained a recognized place among the bible commentators in the Middle Ages, as we can see in the works of Christian writers such as St. Augustine, St. Jerome, Caesarius of Arles, Beda and Beatus of Liebana.Keywords: Bible Commentary – Reading practices – Medieval Christianity.

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Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages. Edited by Jinty Nelson and Damien Kempf . (Studies in Early Medieval History.) Pp. ix + 284 incl. 7 tables. New York–London: Bloomsbury, 2015. £69.99. 978 1 47424 572 2

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History ◽

10.1017/s0022046916001883 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 68 (1) ◽

pp. 136-138

Author(s):

Scott G. Bruce

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Medieval History ◽

Early Medieval ◽

The Bible ◽

The Middle Ages

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NATIONALHISTORIE EFTER MODERNISMEN - FOLKEBEGREBET I LYSET AF EUROPAS STORE FORTÆLLINGER

K&K - Kultur og Klasse ◽

10.7146/kok.v42i117.17566 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 42 (117) ◽

pp. 159-174

Author(s):

Michael Böss

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

Middle Ages ◽

French Revolution ◽

Main Role ◽

National History ◽

The Bible ◽

The People ◽

History Of ◽

The Impact ◽

The Middle Ages

WRITING NATIONAL HISTORY AFTER MODERNISM: THE HISTORY OF PEOPLEHOOD IN LIGHT OF EUROPEAN GRAND NARRATIVES | The purpose of the article is to refute the recent claim that Danish history cannot be written on the assumption of the existence of a Danish people prior to 19th-century nationalism. The article argues that, over the past twenty years, scholars in pre-modern European history have highlighted the limitations of the modernist paradigm in the study of nationalism and the history of nations. For example, modernists have difficulties explaining why a Medieval chronicle such as Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum was translated in the mid-1600s, and why it could be used for new purposes in the 1800s, if there had not been a continuity in notions of peoplehood between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. Of course, the claim of continuity should not be seen as an argument for an identity between the “Danes” of Saxo’s time and the Danes of the 19th-century Danish nation-state. Rather, the modern Danishness should be understood as the product of a historical process, in which a number of European cultural narratives and state building played a significant role. The four most important narratives of the Middle Ages were derived from the Bible, which was a rich treasure of images and stories of ‘people’, ‘tribe’, ‘God’, King, ‘justice’ and ‘kingdom’ (state). While keeping the basic structures, the meanings of these narratives were re-interpreted and placed in new hierarchical positions in the course of time under the impact of the Reformation, 16th-century English Puritanism, Enlightenment patriotism, the French Revolution and 19th-century romantic nationalism. The article concludes that it is still possible to write national histories featuring ‘the people’ as one of the actors. But the historian should keep in mind that ‘the people’ did not always play the main role, nor did they play the same role as in previous periods. And even though there is a need to form syntheses when writing national history, national identities have always developed within a context of competing and hierarchical narratives. In Denmark, the ‘patriotist narrative’ seems to be in ascendancy in the social and cultural elites, but has only partly replaced the ‘ethno-national’ narrative which is widespread in other parts of the population. The ‘compact narrative’ has so far survived due the continued love of the people for their monarch. It may even prove to provide social glue for a sense of peoplehood uniting ‘old’ and ‘new’ Danes.

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