Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England
Experiments in Interpretation

‘This is a highly rewarding book. Kraebel deals with a complex subject with the utmost clarity and competence. He has added important insights and conclusions of his own which enrich our understanding of a field far broader and more interesting than the reformers would admit.’ Alastair Hamilton, Journal of Ecclesiastical History

‘… Kraebel excavates the wider field of scholastic biblical exegesis in fourteenth-century England … Kraebel is to be commended for having reclaimed so much of later medieval England’s biblical commentary from obscurity as well as for having analyzed these texts and their manuscripts so closely and carefully.’ Audrey Southgate, Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures

‘Kraebel’s admirable study does much to help, and to show how those implications might be not reductive, but rather stimulating and fruitful. Potential readers should take the plunge: the rewards justify the effort.’ Daniel Sawyer, Studies in the Age of Chaucer

‘Kraebel’s compelling study is intensely learned, succinct, and marked by careful attention to the manuscript evidence and textual details. At the same time, Kraebel draws convincing conclusions as to the implications of this evidence for our broader understanding of scholastic hermeneutics in fourteenth-century England. This excellent study also reveals the need for further work on many aspects of works such as the Glossed Gospels and Wyclif’s Postilla, and, it is to be hoped, will inspire future research in this crucial field.’ Cosima Clara Gillhammer, Anglia

‘Relatively few scholars … achieve their scholarly reputations not only by dint of hard work and insights but also by doing something few medievalists have the time and opportunity to do: read manuscripts in quantity. On the trajectory of his scholarship to date, to that cohort we can add Andrew Kraebel, who shows that scholarly opinion concerning fourteenth-century English commentary on and translation of the Bible is superficial and often wrong. … [Kraebel] supplies examples of nuanced sophistication on almost every page.’ James H. Morey, Journal of English and Germanic Philology

‘This is a book that specialists will find worth revisiting.’ Patrick Hornbeck, Renaissance Quarterly