Studies in the Reception of the Historia Scholastica of P...
Sherwood-Smith, C. Maria![Studies in the Reception of the Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/350/35040350/CHSBZCOP0335040350.jpg)
The Historia Scholastica (circa 1170) mingles biblical narrative, Jewish legends, and commentary, and was a popular source of biblical material for authors until the Reformation. Maria Sherwood-Smith gives an introduction to the sources and transmission of the Latin work before investigating its reception in detail in two thirteenth-century German works, the Schwarzwälder Predigten and the Weltchronik of Rudolf von Ems. Briefer analyses of Jac...