Andrew Kraebel
My research focuses on medieval practices of reading c. 800-1450––how medieval readers interpreted texts (hermeneutics), the medium in which they encountered texts (book history or manuscript studies), and how their interpretive practices informed new literary productions (medieval literary theory and criticism). The Bible was the most authoritative text throughout the Middle Ages––for both its content and its literary style––and so, in my writing, I endeavor to cast light on the various ways in which the Bible was interpreted, and on the relationship between such exegesis and the composition of new literature, particularly in Middle English. I am also interested in bringing forward new sources, texts that have not yet been part of the discussion of medieval literary history. Textual criticism and editing are therefore another major component of my research.
Address: Department of English
Trinity University
1 Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212
Address: Department of English
Trinity University
1 Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212
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This interdisciplinary book is the first of its kind to be dedicated wholly to exploring these cantors and their craft. As the use of this word––“craft”––in our titles suggests, the essays in this volume are studies of constructions, both of the building blocks of time and of the people who made and performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written records. These essays respond to a fundamental question: How can the range of cantors’ activities help us understand the many different ways in which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated across this long period? Our contributors present a variety of different approaches to answering this question, and in the process their essays recover some of the multifaceted work of medieval history-making. In most cases, their answers involve recourse to the liturgy, a mode of history-production in which all members of the community––lay and religious, men and women––had roles to play. Cantors, as this volume makes clear, shaped the communal experience of the past in the Middle Ages.
Contributors include: Cara Aspesi, Alison I. Beach, Katie Bugyis, Anna de Bakker, Margot Fassler, David Ganz, James Grier, Paul Antony Hayward, Peter Jeffery, CJ Jones, Andrew Kraebel, Lori Kruckenberg, Rosamond McKitterick, Henry Parkes, Susan Rankin, C. C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonneysn, Tessa Webber, and Lauren Whitnah.
This volume offers a first edition of three homiletic works by the twelfth-century canon regular William of Newburgh: a homily on Luke 11.27 that explores in two successive sections the literal and typological exegesis of the passage, respectively; a sermon on the Trinity, structured as an extended exegesis of the Gloria Patri and the Benedicamus, and owing much to Augustinian notions of the Trinitarian structure of the human soul as an image of God; and a sermon on the martyrdom of St Alban which extrapolates from relatively brief references to the details of the narrative in order to explore the nature of martyrdom and the union of the martyr’s soul with Christ. Together they constitute a significant witness to the development of meditative theology as a vehicle of spirituality in England in the generations after Anselm. In keeping with the principles of the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series, the texts are edited from a single MS witness, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C. 31 in the case of the first two works and that of London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 73 in the case of the third, with judicious appeal to the other two MSS for variant readings only where the reading of the base MS is clearly defective. The volume concludes with an index of biblical citations.
Papers by Andrew Kraebel
BL MS Arundel 158, a copy of Richard Rolle’s English Psalter, contains a series of annotations in the hand of Stephan Batman, providing one further example to illustrate Batman’s interest in Middle English biblical literature, and also identifying the precise date of Batman’s birth.
Abstract. –– Stegmüller no. 5337/5340 was misattributed by Beryl Smalley to Ivo II of Chartres; comparison of this text to other dateable commentaries reveals that it was composed in the final decades of the eleventh century, before Ivo taught, while its dependence on the glossed Psalter in MS Rheims BM 133 reveals that it was a product of the cathedral school of Rheims. Indeed, the commentary appears to be attributed to John, a former master of Rheims, in the twelfth-century catalogue of John’s abbey of St.-Evroult. This commentary survives in three recensions, as well as two interpolated redactions, all of which are described; the essay concludes with appendices which list the extant manuscripts of the commentary and provide an edition of the prologues and gloss on Ps. 1.
This interdisciplinary book is the first of its kind to be dedicated wholly to exploring these cantors and their craft. As the use of this word––“craft”––in our titles suggests, the essays in this volume are studies of constructions, both of the building blocks of time and of the people who made and performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written records. These essays respond to a fundamental question: How can the range of cantors’ activities help us understand the many different ways in which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated across this long period? Our contributors present a variety of different approaches to answering this question, and in the process their essays recover some of the multifaceted work of medieval history-making. In most cases, their answers involve recourse to the liturgy, a mode of history-production in which all members of the community––lay and religious, men and women––had roles to play. Cantors, as this volume makes clear, shaped the communal experience of the past in the Middle Ages.
Contributors include: Cara Aspesi, Alison I. Beach, Katie Bugyis, Anna de Bakker, Margot Fassler, David Ganz, James Grier, Paul Antony Hayward, Peter Jeffery, CJ Jones, Andrew Kraebel, Lori Kruckenberg, Rosamond McKitterick, Henry Parkes, Susan Rankin, C. C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonneysn, Tessa Webber, and Lauren Whitnah.
This volume offers a first edition of three homiletic works by the twelfth-century canon regular William of Newburgh: a homily on Luke 11.27 that explores in two successive sections the literal and typological exegesis of the passage, respectively; a sermon on the Trinity, structured as an extended exegesis of the Gloria Patri and the Benedicamus, and owing much to Augustinian notions of the Trinitarian structure of the human soul as an image of God; and a sermon on the martyrdom of St Alban which extrapolates from relatively brief references to the details of the narrative in order to explore the nature of martyrdom and the union of the martyr’s soul with Christ. Together they constitute a significant witness to the development of meditative theology as a vehicle of spirituality in England in the generations after Anselm. In keeping with the principles of the Toronto Medieval Latin Texts series, the texts are edited from a single MS witness, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C. 31 in the case of the first two works and that of London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 73 in the case of the third, with judicious appeal to the other two MSS for variant readings only where the reading of the base MS is clearly defective. The volume concludes with an index of biblical citations.
BL MS Arundel 158, a copy of Richard Rolle’s English Psalter, contains a series of annotations in the hand of Stephan Batman, providing one further example to illustrate Batman’s interest in Middle English biblical literature, and also identifying the precise date of Batman’s birth.
Abstract. –– Stegmüller no. 5337/5340 was misattributed by Beryl Smalley to Ivo II of Chartres; comparison of this text to other dateable commentaries reveals that it was composed in the final decades of the eleventh century, before Ivo taught, while its dependence on the glossed Psalter in MS Rheims BM 133 reveals that it was a product of the cathedral school of Rheims. Indeed, the commentary appears to be attributed to John, a former master of Rheims, in the twelfth-century catalogue of John’s abbey of St.-Evroult. This commentary survives in three recensions, as well as two interpolated redactions, all of which are described; the essay concludes with appendices which list the extant manuscripts of the commentary and provide an edition of the prologues and gloss on Ps. 1.