| Willelmus Meldunensis Monachus. Liber Super Explanationem Lamentationum Ieremiae Contributor(s): Winterbottom, M. (Editor), Thomson, Rod M. (Editor), Soennesyn, S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2503540872 ISBN-13: 9782503540870 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $430.83 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 224.307 |
| LCCN: 2012423005 |
| Series: Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis |
| Physical Information: 387 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: William of Malmesbury's Commentary on Lamentations is one of the rare works of biblical commentary produced by an English Benedictine in the twelfth century. Surviving complete in a single manuscript, and in burnt fragments of another, it is here edited for the first time. Although the work is explicitly based upon the ninth-century commentary by Paschasius, it is enriched by William's own wide and deep reading of the Bible, the Fathers and the Latin Classics. Here we find the great historian grappling with theological and moral issues both universal and personal, as he attempts to understand God's disciplining of His people, whether understood as the Jews, the Church, or the English of William's own day. |