The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages – Production, Reception, and Performance in Western Christianity

Susan Boynton is associate professor of historical musicology at Columbia University and author of Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and the History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125.

Diane J. Reilly is associate professor of art history at Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne, and the Saint Vaast Bible.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Orientation for the Reader
Susan Boynton and Diane J. Reilly
2. The Bible and the Liturgy
Susan Boynton
3. Bibles, Biblical Books, and the Monastic Liturgy in the Early Middle Ages
Richard Gyug
4. When Monks Were the Book: The Bible and Monasticism (6th–11th Centuries)
Isabelle Cochelin
5. The Bible and the Meaning of History
Jennifer A. Harris
6. Lectern Bibles and Liturgical Reform in the Central Middle Ages
Diane J. Reilly
7. The Italian Giant Bibles
Lila Yawn
8. Biblical Exegesis Through the Twelfth Century
Frans van Liere
9. Mendicant School Exegesis
Bert Roest
10. "A Ladder Set Up on Earth": The Bible in Medieval Sermons
Eyal Poleg
11. The Bible and the Individual: The Thirteenth-Century Paris Bible
Laura Light
12. The Illustrated Psalter: Luxury and Practical Use
Stella Panayotova
13. The Bible in English in the Middle Ages
Richard Marsden
14. The Old French Bible: The First Complete Vernacular Bible in Western Europe
Clive R. Sneddon
15. Castilian Vernacular Bibles in Iberia, c. 1250–1500
Emily C. Francomano
Glossary
Contributors
Index