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- Title
Engaging in Dialogue: Roger d'Argenteuil's Bible en françois and Le dyalogue dou pere et dou filz.
- Authors
GRANGE, HUW
- Abstract
The thirteenth-century Bible en françois attributed to Roger d'Argenteuil is known to have circulated in two distinct recensions. Where the 'unabridged' version combines biblical history with a short extract from the father-son colloquy known as Le dyalogue dou pere et dou filz, the 'abridged' version attaches a brief synopsis of the narrative material to much longer passages from the Dyalogue. This classification is challenged by Fairfax ms. 24 in the Bodleian Library, a fourteenth-century witness of the Bible of English origin that has been overlooked in scholarship. In reconciling Fairfax 24 with the wider manuscript tradition of the Bible in French and English, this article raises questions about the genesis of the Bible and the Dyalogue and, more broadly, about the utility of vernacular dialogue works in engaging late medieval audiences with Christian doctrine.
- Subjects
BIBLICAL historiography; FATHER-child relationship; DOCTRINAL theology; BODLEIAN Library; SCHOLARLY method in literature
- Publication
Cultura Neolatina, 2017, Issue 3/4, p365
- ISSN
0391-5654
- Publication type
Article