Studies in the Reception of the Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor
C. Maria Sherwood-Smith
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Studies in the Reception of the Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor

The Schwarzwalder Predigten, the Weltchronik of Rudolf von Ems, the Scolastica of Jacob van Maerlant and the Historiebijbel van 1360

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The Historia Scholastica (circa 1170) mingles biblical narrative, Jewish legends, and commentary, and was a popular source of biblical material for authors until the Reformation. Maria Sherwood-Smith gives an introduction to the sources and transmission of the Latin work before investigating its reception in detail in two thirteenth-century German works, the Schwarzwälder Predigten and the Weltchronik of Rudolf von Ems. Briefer analyses of Jacob van Maerlant's Scholastica and the Historiebijbel van 1360 provide further context. Looking in this way at the different functions the work fulfils f...