1st Edition
The Sibyl and Her Scribes Manuscripts and Interpretation of the Latin Sibylla Tiburtina c. 1050–1500
By Anke Holdenried
Copyright 2006
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Sibylla Tiburtina is a Latin prophecy attributed to a prophetess from classical antiquity. It concludes with an account of the End of History, involving the coming of the Antichrist and his battle with a Last World Emperor. Approximately 100 manuscripts, written between the mid-11th and the 16th centuries, survive which testify to the Tiburtina's immense popularity in the medieval West; as... Read more
Contents: Introduction. Part I Approaches to the Tiburtina: The Tiburtina in the context of editorial concerns; Extant manuscripts: repositories of medieval approaches to the Tiburtina; The neglected medieval context: the Sibyl as prophetess of Christ. Part II The Tiburtina in the Context of its Medium of Transmission: Associated content; Salvation, judgement and the Tiburtina. Part III The Impact of the Christological Tradition of Sibylline Prophecy: The evidence of the margins; Beyond the regnal lists: the evidence of textual variations; Matthew Paris, Augustine and the Tiburtina; Conclusion. Part IV Manuscripts: Guide to the conspectus of extant manuscripts; Conspectus of extant manuscripts. Appendices; Bibliography; Indexes.
Biography
Dr Anke Holdenried is Lecturer in Medieval History in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol, UK
'The research that she has done on the manuscript tradition is outstanding and deserves to be made more widely available. In addition, she has made a significant contribution to broader understanding of the diffusion of the Sibyllina by demonstrating how the Christological sections of the Sibylla Tiburtina were much more important than had previously been known. In making this point, she corrects much previous scholarship on this family of texts (including my own).' Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago
