The Text of the Bible and the Script and Art of Tours
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20289934 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie Webber Jones (City College of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1935 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-179 |
| Publication date | 1935-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Harvard Theological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-8160 • E-ISSN: 1475-4517 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s001781600002294x |
| OpenAlex | W2110865038 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
‘To no student of the Middle Ages,’ says Beeson, ‘can Tours and its scriptoria fail to appeal.’ The historian, for example, desires to know the part Alcuin played in the reform of writing, the relationship between the scriptoria and the Court and Church, the exact dates at which certain monks lived and wrote. The scholar interested in Classical and mediaeval literature turns to manuscripts of Cicero, Virgil, and Livy, or Augustine, Bede, and Isidore. The philologist looks for ‘Irish’ or ‘Spanish’ symptoms in the Latinity of certain codices
Appeal · Art · Cicero · Irish · Linguistics · Literature · Philology · Political science · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Medieval European Literature and History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1965 - 1965 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |