From: Medium Aevum | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Lahnemann, Henrike | COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Medium AEvum Monographs, NS 20 (Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 2000). x + 181 pp. ISBN 0-907570-13-5. 12.00 [pounds sterling].

The Historia scholastica by Peter Comestor constituted one of the most important routes of transmission for biblical stories, commentary traditions, and authoritative sentences from the end of the twelfth century onwards. `As a work of literature the "Historia" made the Bible, which can be very strange and int...