In Readers' Hands
New Perspectives on Premodern Bibles in Europe
Published on 25. November 2024
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-90-04-71411-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores the production, transmission, and reading practices of vernacular Bibles in early modern Europe. This varied collection of essays provides historical, book historical, literary, theological, and art historical perspectives to the movements of manuscript and printed Bibles. The contributions concern Bibles in many different languages and from across the European continent, from Ireland to Portugal. Rather than perceiving Scripture and the material carriers of Scripture as static things, this volume demonstrates how Bibles constantly acquired new meanings and functions as they moved through time and space, and were touched by the hands of makers, readers, and users.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
942 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-71411-3 (9789004714113)
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Persons
Sabrina Corbellini, PhD (2000, University of Leiden) is Professor of History of Reading in Premodern Europe. She specialises in the reconstruction of reading activities and libraries in early medieval Europe.
Wim Francois, PhD and STD (2004), is Professor of Early Modern Church and Theology and Academic Librarian of the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven. He has published extensively on the place of the Bible in early modern Catholicism, especially vernacular Bible translations, Latin Bible commentaries, and biblical plays.
Renske A. Hoff, PhD (2022, University of Groningen and KU Leuven) is Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature at Utrecht University. She specialises in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century book history, with a particular focus on the use of religious manuscripts and early printed books.
Wim Francois, PhD and STD (2004), is Professor of Early Modern Church and Theology and Academic Librarian of the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven. He has published extensively on the place of the Bible in early modern Catholicism, especially vernacular Bible translations, Latin Bible commentaries, and biblical plays.
Renske A. Hoff, PhD (2022, University of Groningen and KU Leuven) is Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature at Utrecht University. She specialises in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century book history, with a particular focus on the use of religious manuscripts and early printed books.
Content
Contents
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Premodern Bibles through Space and Time
?Sabrina Corbellini, Renske Hoff and Wim Francois
1 Navigating the Biblical Text: the Biblical Summary in Heidelberg, Universitaetsbibliothek, Cpg 110, Read as a Hypertext
?Henrike Manuwald
2 The 1528-29 Dutch Vorsterman Bibles: a Book Archeological Study of Owners and Readers
?Bert Tops
3 Transformative Actions: the Fluidity of Materiality and Meaning in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Bibles
?Renske Hoff
4 Vernacular Bibles and Their Catholic Readers in Sixteenth-Century France
?Mack P. Holt
5 Sixteenth-Century Polish-Lithuanian Biblical Prints and Bibles between West and East
?Joanna Pietrzak-Thebault
6 "The Tune Then Used": Psalm Verse Numeration and English Bible Readers
?Jeremy Specland
7 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus's Dutch New Testament
?Walter S. Melion
8 From Medieval Scripture to Missionary Word: The Bible in Portuguese from Catholic to Protestant Hands (and Back)
?Herculano Alves, OFMCap and Wim Francois
9 Burning the Bible in Early Modern Ireland: the Rebellion of 1641
?Tadhg O hAnnrachain
10 On Using Indicators of Book Use
?Joshua Calhoun
Index
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Premodern Bibles through Space and Time
?Sabrina Corbellini, Renske Hoff and Wim Francois
1 Navigating the Biblical Text: the Biblical Summary in Heidelberg, Universitaetsbibliothek, Cpg 110, Read as a Hypertext
?Henrike Manuwald
2 The 1528-29 Dutch Vorsterman Bibles: a Book Archeological Study of Owners and Readers
?Bert Tops
3 Transformative Actions: the Fluidity of Materiality and Meaning in Sixteenth-Century Dutch Bibles
?Renske Hoff
4 Vernacular Bibles and Their Catholic Readers in Sixteenth-Century France
?Mack P. Holt
5 Sixteenth-Century Polish-Lithuanian Biblical Prints and Bibles between West and East
?Joanna Pietrzak-Thebault
6 "The Tune Then Used": Psalm Verse Numeration and English Bible Readers
?Jeremy Specland
7 Interpolated Prints as Exegetical Meditative Glosses in a Customized Copy of Franciscus Costerus's Dutch New Testament
?Walter S. Melion
8 From Medieval Scripture to Missionary Word: The Bible in Portuguese from Catholic to Protestant Hands (and Back)
?Herculano Alves, OFMCap and Wim Francois
9 Burning the Bible in Early Modern Ireland: the Rebellion of 1641
?Tadhg O hAnnrachain
10 On Using Indicators of Book Use
?Joshua Calhoun
Index