Making the Bible French: The Bible historiale and the Medieval Lay Reader
Jeanette Patterson, "Making the Bible French: The Bible historiale and the Medieval Lay Reader"
English | ISBN: 1487508883 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1487508883 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB
From the end of the thirteenth century to the first decades of the sixteenth century, Guyart des Moulins’s Bible historiale was the predominant French translation of the Bible. Enhancing his translation with techniques borrowed from scholastic study, vernacular preaching, and secular fiction, Guyart produced one of the most popular, most widely copied French-language texts of the later Middle Ages.
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