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biblical poetics before humanism and reformation
christopher ockers book is a study of the interpretation of the bible in the late middle ages . he argues that interpreters developed a biblical poetics very similar to that cultivated and promoted by protestants in the sixteenth century which was reinforced by the adaptation of humanist rhetoric to bible reading after lorenzo valla . this comparative study is derived from a variety of unpublished commentaries as well as more familiar works by nicholas of lyra john wyclif jean gerson denys the carthusian wendelin steinbach desiderius erasmus philip melanchthon and john calvin .
paperback cambridge university press 2008 isbn13 9780521089210 isbn10 0521089212
abridged n isbn 13 9780521089210 number in series 1 number of pages 265 publisher cambridge univ pr release date 62135769600000