| Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity: The Encounter Between Classical and Christian Strategies of Interpretation Contributor(s): Otten, Willemien (Editor), Pollmann, Karla (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004160698 ISBN-13: 9789004160699 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $211.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: This volume presents a broad variety of specifically Christian approaches to poetry and analyses modes of interpreting the Bible that are new in poetry compared with prose exegesis. Both theoretical statements on poetry by Christians and concrete poetic works from roughly 300 to 1250 AD are taken into account. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Ancient & Classical - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 871.02 |
| Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.57" W x 9.61" (1.82 lbs) 360 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume investigates various exegetical possibilities in Christian Latin poetry during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In the Latin West poetry was mainly associated with the powerful pagan tradition of writers like Vergil and Ovid, and by many poetry was considered to tell lies and provide mere entertainment potentially corrupting the soul. Therefore, Christians initially had reservations about this genre and believed it to be incompatible with Christian worship, literacy and intellectual activity. In practice, however, forms of specifically Christian poetry developed from the end of the third century onwards; theoretical reconciliations were developed around 400 A.D. This collection examines specimens of Christian poetry from Juvencus (the first biblical epicist shortly after 300) up to the thirteenth century. Its particular usefulness lies in the combination of literary theory and hermeneutics, close readings of the texts and new readings on a sound philological basis. |