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Philippa Byrne
What Was Open in/about Early Scholastic Thought?
This chapter examines the meaning of the term aperire (to open) in the schools of the twelfth century and within early scholastic thought. It argues for a shift from a traditional understanding of opening as a revelation received from God, towards a more technical definition of opening as applying dialectical logic to a text. The act of opening was employed polemically, both in debates between scholastic masters and to distinguish Christian from Jewish exegetical practices.
Keywords: scholasticism; exegesis; dialectic; disputation; Christianity; Judaism; Hugh of St Victor
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What Was Open in/about Early Scholastic Thought?
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Philippa Byrne
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This chapter examines the meaning of the term aperire (to open) in the schools of the twelfth century and within early scholastic thought. It argues for a shift from a traditional understanding of opening as a revelation received from God, towards a more technical definition of opening as applying dialectical logic to a text. The act of opening was employed polemically, both in debates between scholastic masters and to distinguish Christian from Jewish exegetical practices.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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19 April 2022
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scholasticism
exegesis
dialectic
disputation
Christianity
Judaism
Hugh of St Victor
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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45
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64
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Openness in Medieval Europe, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 45–64
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Cite as:
Philippa Byrne, ‘What Was Open in/about Early Scholastic Thought?’, in Openness in Medieval Europe, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 45-64 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_03>