Teachers and Code-Breakers: The Latin Genesis Tradition, 430-800

by Thomas O'Loughlin

That Genesis was a key text in the formation of the medieval intellectual world is well recognised. But what were the motives and methods of those who used it? This book looks at the writers and how they wrote about Genesis to reconstruct the intellectual history of the period. It explores how their use of Genesis discloses common attitudes to revelation, authority, and one another.In turn the book examines, how awareness of their self-understanding,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 250350843X
• ISBN13: 9782503508436
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 394 Pages