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Chapter 4 - Moral Experiments: Middle English Matthew Commentaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

Andrew Kraebel
Affiliation:
Trinity University, Texas
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This chapter focuses on unedited and largely unstudied Middle English commentaries on Matthew. In all of these texts, vernacular exegetes turned to Matthew primarily for the book’s moral teaching, and, in line with the arguments advanced in Chapter 1, they favored moralizing glosses without concern for how these interpretations fit into the different senses of Scripture. This chapter begins with consideration of a vernacular commentary likely produced in Durham Priory in the second half of the fourteenth century, almost certainly inspired by the precedent of Rolle. It then takes up the most ambitious work (or collection of works) of English vernacular exegesis, the Wycliffite Glossed Gospels, tracing their compilers’ changing ways of handling the various components of the vernacular exegetical form – close translation, gloss, and citation. The long and short recensions of their commentary on Matthew are compared at length, and the chapter concludes with a new discussion of Wycliffite interpretive theory in light of these unfortunately neglected texts.

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Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England
Experiments in Interpretation
, pp. 133 - 175
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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