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“Pleasure, Story, Word: Vernacular Verse Bibles Before the English Reformation”
A Scripture and the Arts Program lecture by Harvard's Nicholas Watson with reception to follow. It is often claimed that medieval Christian Europe had no vernacular Bibles, which were a triumphant invention of sixteenth-century Protestantism, aided by the rise of print. One way this is wrong is in its narrow view of what counts as a Bible. Between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries in particular, European vernacular Bibles were as often as not in verse, presenting a view of the Scriptures not primarily as divine law but as a record of sacred history – of events and their layered meanings – offering readers and hearers not only the word of God but testimony to his actions as a creator, guide, and above all his incarnate presence. Heroic, performative, aesthetic – its rhythms staking a claim not only on the minds but on the bodily experience of its auditors – poetry was a fit medium for such testimony, elevating spoken Word over written Text.
When | 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 |
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Building | SMG building, 1 Silber Way, 9th floor |
Room | Trustees Lounge |
Contact Name | Theresa Cooney |
Contact Email | scripart@bu.edu |
Contact Organization | Program for Scripture and the Arts, Department of Religion |
Fees | Free |
Speakers | Nicholas Watson, Harvard University English Professor |