Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:52:12 -0400
From: "Juris G. Lidaka" <[log in to unmask]>
To: medieval religion <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Searching topics in sermons etc.?
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My bibliographic/research skills are deserting me, so I seek for
advice and pointers. I would like to find religious discussions or
interpretations of the subject of human conception, these discussions in
the period c. 1450-1550/1600. My starting point is the chapter in
Bartholomaeus Anglicus' encyclopedia De proprietatibus rerum, Book VI, in
which the text does recapitulate old allegorization of the time of
gestation, but printed texts do not include marginal comments, which also
allegoricize the more scientific text. Batman vppon Bartholome (Batman's
revision of Trevisa's translation of Barth. Angl.) omits the marginal
comments.
But if I were simply to look for topics such as this, for the
Early Modern period in England, where would I look? I am fully aware of
whole-work tools such as the STC, but under these circumstances those are
not of real value in identifying the works I ought to scan.
My thanks in advance.
Juris
Juris G. Lidaka
WVSC Box 57
PO Box 1000
Institute, WV 25112-1000
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