The Exegetical Turn: Exegesis as a Paradigm for New Understandings of the Middle Ages
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Virginia Tech
Organizer Name
Matthew Gabriele
Organizer Affiliation
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.
Presider Name
David M. Perry
Presider Affiliation
Dominican Univ.
Paper Title 1
Kissing Christ: Judas’s Mouth as Biblical Exegesis
Presenter 1 Name
Rabia Gregory
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Paper Title 2
The Exegetical Diplomas of King Philip I of Francia (1060-1108)
Presenter 2 Name
Matthew Gabriele
Paper Title 3
Read! Think! Engage! How Luther’s Exegesis of Genesis Exhorted People out of the Cloister and into Family and Society
Presenter 3 Name
Jennifer Hockenbery
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Mount Mary Univ.
Start Date
8-5-2014 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1320
Description
Biblical verses were never “naked” in the Middle Ages. They were clothed in the heavy garments of tradition and weighed down with the burden of commentary. We have the tendency to see an eleventh-century monastic chronicler cite Jeremiah and think “Jeremiah,” when we should be thinking, with author and intended reader, “Hrabanus,” “Haimo,” “Paschasius,” and “Jerome.” We tend to forget that men of the Middle Ages often encountered the Bible through Carolingian and Patristic commentaries.
This session will therefore seek to see what precisely we may have missed, to reconsider historical, literary, and/ or artistic artifacts from the Middle Ages in light of the exegetical tradition in which they were created. Then, in turn, this session will allow us to ask if this new understanding of how these objects were created and received fundamentally change how we understand the European Middle Ages itself.
Matthew Gabriele
The Exegetical Turn: Exegesis as a Paradigm for New Understandings of the Middle Ages
Schneider 1320
Biblical verses were never “naked” in the Middle Ages. They were clothed in the heavy garments of tradition and weighed down with the burden of commentary. We have the tendency to see an eleventh-century monastic chronicler cite Jeremiah and think “Jeremiah,” when we should be thinking, with author and intended reader, “Hrabanus,” “Haimo,” “Paschasius,” and “Jerome.” We tend to forget that men of the Middle Ages often encountered the Bible through Carolingian and Patristic commentaries.
This session will therefore seek to see what precisely we may have missed, to reconsider historical, literary, and/ or artistic artifacts from the Middle Ages in light of the exegetical tradition in which they were created. Then, in turn, this session will allow us to ask if this new understanding of how these objects were created and received fundamentally change how we understand the European Middle Ages itself.
Matthew Gabriele