Università Roma Tre

TITLE OF THE COURSE: The Bible in the culture of the Middle Ages: the De scripturis et scriptoribus sacris by Ugo di san Vittore.

DESCRIPTION: Although having as its object the reading and analysis of the De scripturis et scriptoribus sacris by Hugh of St. Victor (1096 ca.-1141), the course intends to widen the view on the multiple and complex problems - of a historical, philological, literary and doctrinal nature - concerning the use and interpretation of biblical texts in the development of culture, and in a certain way also of the mentality of the medieval West. – The course involves practical exercises meant to introduce the knowledge and the usage of the main bibliographical and informatic tools for the study and research on Medieval Latin authors.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hugo de S. Victore, De scripturis et sciptoribus sacris, PL CLXXV, coll. 9-28.
2. One of the following books:
- D. Poirel, Ugo di San Vittore. Storia, scienza, contemplazione, trad. it., Ed. Jaca Book, Milano 1997.
- P. Rorem, Hugh of Saint Victor, Oxford University Press, New York 2009.
3. One of the following books:
- La Bibbia nel Medioevo, a cura di G. Cremascoli e C. Leonardi, Ed. Dehoniane, Bologna 1996.
- B. Smalley, Lo studio della Bibbia nel Medioevo, trad. it., Ed. Il Mulino, Bologna 1972.
4. (optional) R. M. W. Stammberger, “Diligens scrutator sacri eloquii”: an introduction to scriptural exegesis by Hugh of St Victor preserved at Admont library (ms 672), in Manuscripts and monastic culture. Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany, ed. by A. I. Beach, Brepols, Turnhout 2007, pp. 241-283.