The ''Historia Scholastica'' is a twelfth-century
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written in
Medieval Latin by
Petrus Comestor
Petrus Comestor, also called Pierre le Mangeur (died 22 October 1178), was a twelfth-century France, French Theology, theological writer and university teacher.
Life
Petrus Comestor was born in Troyes. Although the name ''Comestor'' (Latin fo ...
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Sometimes called the "Medieval Popular Bible", it draws on the Bible and other sources, including the works of classical scholars and the
Fathers of the Church, to present a
universal history (universal, that is, from the perspective of
medieval Europe).
The ''Historia Scholastica'' was a required part of the
core curriculum
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at the
University of Paris,
Oxford and other universities, and a significant
secondary source of popular biblical knowledge from its completion around 1173
through the fifteenth century, although after about 1350 it was gradually supplanted by newer works.
It was translated into every major Western European
vernacular
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of the period.
Numerous paraphrases and abridgements were produced, in
Latin and vernacular languages.
It was among the
earliest printed works, with editions appearing c. 1470 in both
Strasbourg and
Reutlingen
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Reutlingen has a university of applied sciences, which ...
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See also
* ''
Palaea Historica''
References
External links
* Full text of ''Historia scholastica'' on
Corpus Corporum'
* List of medieval manuscripts containing ''Historia scholastica'' on
MIRABILE'
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Biblical paraphrases
French chronicles
12th-century Latin books