Willelmus Meldunensis monachus. Liber super explanationem Lamentationum Ieremiae

edited by M. Winterbottom, R. M. Thomson and S. Soennesyn

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Extent: 387 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers (Brepnd)

Subjects: Medieval Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis

Series volume number: 244

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2011)

ISBN: 9782503540870

Price: $300.00

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William of Malmesbury’s Commentary on Lamentations is one of the rare works of biblical commentary produced by an English Benedictine in the twelfth century. Surviving complete in a single manuscript, and in burnt fragments of another, it is here edited for the first time. Although the work is explicitly based upon the ninth-century commentary by Paschasius, it is enriched by William’s own wide and deep reading of the Bible, the Fathers and the Latin Classics. Here we find the great historian grappling with theological and moral issues both universal and personal, as he attempts to understand God’s disciplining of His people, whether understood as the Jews, the Church, or the English of William’s own day.

  • Edited by S. Soennesyn
  • Edited by Rod M Thomson
  • Edited by M. Winterbottom