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the same diagram of the tabernacle is found in Arthur G. Holder's
translation of Bede On the Tabernacle in the Translated Texts for
Historians series publ. by Liverpool Univ. press. The diagram appears
as the frontispiece again.
Grover A. Zinn
William H. Danforth Professor of Religion (emeritus)
former Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH 44074
440-775-8866 (department)
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On Jul 24, 2008, at 1:26 PM, jbugslag wrote:
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>> [p. 713, #3000]
>> Iuvenes quoque et pueros quos...sapidos invenit, per diversa scolarum
>> studia cirucumquaque dispertivit; quorum certe postea servimine
>> variam
>> ac multiplicem suae ecclesiae utilitatem **in lectione scriptura et
>> pictura** ac plurali honestiori clericalis officii disciplina
>> conquisivit.
>>
>>
>> i take this to mean that the saintly bishop taught the young
>> (soon-to-be) clerics under his care (perhaps even including the
>> author
>> of the Vita) to "read text [/writings, or perhaps, Scripture] and
>> pictures [/images]..."
>
> Christopher,
> Off the top of my head, this is something one associates more with
> Hugh of St Victor and the
> other Victorines of the 12th century. It seems a bit perplexing to
> come across such an idea
> so much earlier than that. At that date, it is more usual to find
> references to images as the
> "books of the illiterate" in relation to Pope Gregory the Great's
> pronouncements, but that is
> clearly not what is involved here.
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
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