Archiv für Oktober 2017

English Bibles and Their Readers, 1400-1700

Bibles were among the most circulated books in medieval and early modern England, the most studied and most read, and as such they provide a profoundly valuable archive for the history of reading. Because the biblical text underwent intense and often …

Toward a New Cultural History of the Geneva Bible

The most widely circulated bible in the English Renaissance was produced by exiled English Protestants living in Geneva during the reign of Queen Mary I. With over 140 editions and half a million copies in circulation, the Geneva Bible and its complex…

John Bois’s Annotated Septuagint and the King James Bible

This article uses an annotated copy of the 1587 edition of the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament, as a window onto the relationship between biblical criticism and vernacular translation in early seventeenth-century England…

Taking Apart the Wycliffite Bible: Patterns of Selective and Integrative Reading

The Wycliffite Bible, the first comprehensive translation of the Bible in English, survives in greater numbers than any other Middle English work. Yet the great majority of the more than 250 manuscripts catalogued as Wycliffite bibles do not contain t…

New Books across the Disciplines

Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/47/3/639?rss=1

Chaucer’s Bibles: Late Medieval Biblicism and Compilational Form

The use of the Bible in fourteenth-century English secular literature has been surprisingly neglected in the last two decades, largely in response to postwar scholarship carried out under the banner of Robertsonianism and championing allegorical modes…

The Royal Provenance and Tudor Courtly Reading of a Wycliffite Bible

This analysis of Cambridge University Library, MS Mm.2.15 indicates some ways in which the English Bible may have been read by social elites during the mid-Tudor period. The presence of the Cambridge manuscript within the royal collection followed a p…

Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2017, Page 217-219<br/>. <br/>

Assisted Reproduction across Borders: Feminist Perspectives on Normalization, Disruptions and Transmissions

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2017, Page 220-223<br/>. <br/>

Working for Change: Projectified Politics and Gender Equality

Volume 25, Issue 3, September 2017, Page 163-178<br/>. <br/>