Pouvait-on critiquer la Bible au Moyen Âge ? avec Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Make a donation and receive a gift: http://don.storiavoce.com/ Considered an obscurantist period, the last centuries of the Middle Ages were nevertheless the origin of modern science, as the scholar Oppenheimer asserted. Thus, the Bible, even though it was considered a sacred text, was the subject of numerous commentaries. At the time, it was subjected to critical scrutiny: a method was even developed to interpret the text according to four different readings. In this program, professor of medieval literature Xavier-Laurent Salvador reveals how the medievalists were "modern" by translating the Old and New Testaments into Romance and commenting on them. Why was it necessary to translate the Bible? How did versification give way to prose? Why did such a change constitute an intellectual revolution? Finally, why did men of the Church also draw inspiration from Jewish studies to develop their understanding of the text? Who were Pierre le Mangeur and Guyart des Moulins, and what role did they play in these changes? Guest: Xavier-Laurent Salvador is a lecturer in medieval language and literature at the Sorbonne Paris-Nord University. He has just published The Secrets of the Bible in the Middle Ages (Editions du Cerf, 234 pages, €22). *** Facebook:   / histoireetcivilisationsmag   Instagram:   / histoireetcivilisations   Twitter:   / storiavoce