medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I too am curious about Maccabees because it contains a passage widely used in early medieval commemorative liturgy. I have ransacked my notes and am not turning up anything more specific than a note that Mayke de Jong has written on Hrabanus Maurus' commentary on Maccabees which he wrote for Empress Judith. If you google her and Hrabanus you get a list of her publications which contains a couple of articles that look promising. There's a good chance that she touches on manuscript transmission, although probably earlier than what you are looking for. Most everything else I have run across on Maccabees is more exegetical in focus and is not concerned about historical reception of the books, so I would be curious to hear about whatever you turn up.
Best,
Julian Hendrix
On Mar 24 2006, Jim Bugslag wrote:
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>> i just recently came across a reference to this (unpublished, i assume) ms.
>> which was said to be a latin versification of Maccabees, the prologue of which
>> stated that it was written at the request of a very important 12th c. bishop.
>> looking at my source again i see that it says "of Kings and of Maccabees".
>
>Christopher,
>This combination of Kings and Maccabees is ringing a vague bell, but I can't quite
>put my finger on it. According to Henry Mayr-Harting, Ottonian Book Illumination,
>vol. 1 p. 38, in the 10th century, the resistance of the Maccabees to the Seleucids
>was seen as a biblical type of the resistance of contemporaries to the Hungarians.
>He cites Jean Dunbabin, "The Maccabees as exemplars in the tenth and eleventh
>centuries," in _The Bible in the Medieval World: Essays in Memory of Beryl
>Smalley_, ed. Katherine French and Diana Wood (Oxford, 1985), pp. 60-67, which
>might, perhaps, steer you towards the right track.
>Cheers,
>Jim Bugslag
>
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