{"product_id":"9780907570134","title":"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","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eHistoria Scholastica \u003c\/em\u003e(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 \u003cem\u003eSchwarzwälder Predigten\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eWeltchronik \u003c\/em\u003eof Rudolf von Ems. Briefer analyses of Jacob van Maerlant's \u003cem\u003eScholastica \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003eHistoriebijbel \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003evan 1360 \u003c\/em\u003eprovide further context. Looking in this way at the different functions the work fulfils for later authors, one discerns a growing awareness of the distinction between it and the text of the Bible. It is suggested that this enhances the \u003cem\u003eHistoria Scholastica's \u003c\/em\u003ereputation as a safeguard of orthodoxy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SSMLL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012979572976,"sku":"9780907570134","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780907570134_p0.jpg?v=1763868273","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780907570134","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}