CCS Research Seminar 6

This paper will explore the innovative and intriguing commentary on Exodus that is collected in one work from the vast and much neglected corpus of early medieval exegetical compilation, messy works that are for the most part anonymous or labelled pseudonymously and contain a combination of quotation, paraphrase, and original commentary. This compilation is the Glossae Floriacenses in Vetus et Novum Testamentum, thus far identified in tenth-century Orléans, Médiathèque, 182, and in the late eleventh- or early twelfth-century Reims, BM, 395. Compilations like this one defy the historical contempt for their humble origins in the very phenomenon of their preservation and copying, indicating their value far beyond use by a single individual. Furthermore, these compilations often continue to be works-in-progress, and the unfinished nature of both the text and its manuscripts, as well as their development over time is a repository of key information about the author-compilers, their time, their place, and their practice.

Speaker:
Sarah Corrigan joined the Discipline of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne in 2023 as the inaugural Allan Myers Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature. Sarah completed a PhD in Classics at the University of Galway, Ireland, in 2017, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher there and at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.