A Companion to Josephus in the Medieval West

Karen M. Kletter, Paul C. Hilliard (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-37997-8 (ISBN)

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This volume establishes the fundamentals of the reception history of Flavius Josephus in the Latin Middle Ages (c. 500-1300).

The works of Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias on biblical history and the Jewish war were read and studied throughout the Latin west during the Middle Ages. Each generation of Christian scholars had to contend with the Jewish writer’s text, reputation, and content. This volume demonstrates the complex relationship between Josephus’ legacy and his readers who sought to make use of that legacy across the period of 500 to 1300.

Contributors include: Carson Bay, Susan Edgington, Anthony Ellis, Paul C. Hilliard, Karen M. Kletter, Justin Lake, Richard M. Pollard, Graeme Ward, and Julian Yolles.

Karen M. Kletter is Mclean Professor of History at Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina. Her research interests are in intellectual and cultural history, historiography, and Jewish-Christian relations in the central Middle Ages. She has published articles related to the medieval reception of the Latin Josephus tradition in The Wiley Companion to Josephus (2016) and on the destruction of Jerusalem in Anglo-Norman historiography, “Politics, Prophecy, and Jews” in Jews in Medieval Christendom: Slay them Not (Brill 2013). Paul C. Hilliard is an Associate Professor and Chair in the department of Church History at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. His research is focused on early medieval intellectual history, especially the writings of Bede. His most recent publication is “Bede’s Martyrology: a resource and spiritual lesson” in Bede the Scholar, eds. P. Draby and M. MacCarron (Manchester: 2023).

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List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

When Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias Arrived in Rome: Introducing the Latin Medieval Josephus

Karen M. Kletter and Paul Hilliard

1 The Earliest Medieval Reception of Flavius Josephus

Paul Hilliard

2 “A Rose among Thorns”? Reading Pseudo-Hegesippus (De excidio Hierosolymitano) amid the Latin Josephus Tradition

Carson Bay

3 Flavius Josephus: A Carolingian Church Father?

Richard M. Pollard

4 Between History and Exegesis: Frechulf of Lisieux and the Carolingian Reception of Josephus

Graeme Ward

5 Josephus in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Historiography

Justin Lake

6 Josephus and the First Crusade

Susan Edgington

7 De excidio in England’s Long Twelfth Century: A Preliminary Consideration

Karen M. Kletter

8 Editing or Censoring the Latin Text of Josephus? Evaluating the Deletions in BnF Lat. 12511

Anthony Ellis

9 Josephus in the Twelfth-Century Latin East

Julian Yolles

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Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition ; 106
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	617 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-37997-5 / 9004379975
ISBN-13	978-90-04-37997-8 / 9789004379978
Zustand	Neuware