EAN: 9783799560979

THE POLITICS OF INTERPRETATION THE BIBLE AND TH...

Early medieval political thought was profoundly influenced by scripture. This included law and
legal culture: the Bible provided early medieval elites with the concepts and vocabularies to
write about social relations and their regulation. Scriptural citations could be directly
adopted as law  or cited to explain  legitimize or criticize norms. This recourse to biblical
authority was not straightforward: The application of biblical models to current social
problems created tensions and the need for interpretation and translation  resulting in debates
about the salience and authority of biblical law. This volume brings together papers by
specialists in early medieval law as well as biblical exegesis  addressing the impact of
biblical thought on early medieval legal cultures from early medieval Ireland to Spain and
Carolingian Francia.  Sprachen: Deutsch  Englisch

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