A Companion to Josephus in the Medieval West

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The works of Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias on biblical history and the Jewish war were read and studied throughout the Latin West during the Middle Ages. Each generation of Christian scholars had to contend with the Jewish writer’s text, reputation, and content. This volume demonstrates the complex relationship between Josephus’ legacy and his readers who sought to make use of that legacy across the period of 500 to 1300.

Contributors: Carson Bay, Susan Edgington, Anthony Ellis, Paul C. Hilliard, Karen M. Kletter, Justin Lake, Richard M. Pollard, Graeme Ward, and Julian Yolles.

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Karen M. Kletter is Mclean Professor of History at Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina. Her research interests are in intellectual and cultural history, historiography, and Jewish-Christian relations in the central Middle Ages. She has published articles related to the medieval reception of the Latin Josephus tradition in The Wiley Companion to Josephus (2016) and on the destruction of Jerusalem in Anglo-Norman historiography (“Politics, Prophecy, and Jews”, in Jews in Medieval Christendom: Slay them Not, Brill 2013).

Paul C. Hilliard is an Associate Professor and Chair in the department of Church History at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. His research is focused on early medieval intellectual history, especially the writings of Bede. His most recent publication is “Bede’s Martyrology: a resource and spiritual lesson” in Bede the Scholar, eds. P. Draby and M. MacCarron (Manchester: 2023).
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 When Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias Arrived in Rome: Introducing the Latin Medieval Josephus
   Karen M. Kletter and Paul Hilliard

1  The Earliest Medieval Reception of Flavius Josephus
   Paul Hilliard

2  “A Rose among Thorns”? Reading Pseudo-Hegesippus ( De excidio Hierosolymitano) amid the Latin Josephus Tradition
   Carson Bay

3  Flavius Josephus: A Carolingian Church Father?
   Richard M. Pollard

4  Between History and Exegesis: Frechulf of Lisieux and the Carolingian Reception of Josephus
   Graeme Ward

5  Josephus in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Historiography
   Justin Lake

6  Josephus and the First Crusade
   Susan Edgington

7 De excidio in England’s Long Twelfth Century: A Preliminary Consideration
   Karen M. Kletter

8  Editing or Censoring the Latin Text of Josephus? Evaluating the Deletions in BnF Lat. 12511
   Anthony Ellis

9  Josephus in the Twelfth-Century Latin East
   Julian Yolles

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Academic institutes, libraries, specialists, graduate students, advanced undergraduate students in the fields of medieval history, medieval theology, biblical studies, Jewish studies, Jewish-Christian relations, intellectual history, reception/textual history, historiography, crusades. Keywords: Flavius Josephus, Latin Josephus Tradition, Ps. Hegesippus, Jewish Wars, Antiquities, De Excidio Hierosolymitanae, reception history, rhetoric, Adomnan, Bede, Cassiodorus, Carolingian, Frechulf, Fulcher of Chartres, William of Tyre, Jerusalem, Medieval Historiography, Crusade Chronicles, Manuscripts, Rufinus, church fathers, Richer, Aimoin, Peter Comestor.
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