January 13

read: Hebrew Psalms 1, 27, 39, 53, 69, 81, 98, and 110 [handout from instructor].

January 20

consult: Artur Weiser, The Psalms: A Commentary, trans. Herbert Hartwell (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1962) [Waldo Library Reserve: BS 1430 .W353]

January 25

for discussion: James McKinnon, “The Book of Psalms, Monasticism, and the Western Liturgy,” in The Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages, ed. Nancy van Deusen, SUNY Series in Medieval Studies (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), pp. 43-58 [Waldo Library electronic resource; Waldo Library Reserve and RRC: BS 1430.5 .P57 1999]

January 27

consult: Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem, ed. Bonifatius Fischer et al., 3rd ed.  (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1983) [Waldo Library Reserve: BS 75 1983 and RRC (4th ed.): BS 75 1994]

February 3

consult: Cassiodorus, Explanation of the Psalms, trans. P. G. Walsh, Ancient Christian Writers, 51-53 (New York: Paulist Press, 1990-91) [Waldo Library Reserve: BR 60 .A35 no.51-53]

consult: Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms, ed. Philip Schaff et al., A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 8 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956) [Waldo Library Reserve: BR 60 .S4 1956 v. 8]

February 15

for discussion: Robert G. Calkins, “The Psalter,” in Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983), pp. 207-25, color plates 16-19, and notes [Waldo Library Special Collections Reference: ND 2920 .C28 1983 and RRC: offprint collection]

February 17

for discussion: William Noel, “Medieval Charades and the Visual Syntax of the Utrecht Psalter,” in Studies in the Illustration of the Psalter, ed. Brendan Cassidy and Rosemary Muir Wright (Stamford: Shaun Tyas, 2000), pp. 34-41 [Waldo Library Reserve: ND 3357 .A1 S783 2000 and RRC: Offprint collection]

February 22

for discussion: Jessica Brantley, “The Iconography of the Utrecht Psalter and the Old English Descent into Hell,” Anglo-Saxon England 28 (1999): 43-63. [Waldo Library electronic resource; Waldo Library Stacks and RRC: DA 152.2 .A75 v. 28]

for discussion: Laura Cochrane, “‘The Wine in the Vines and the Foliage in the Roots’: Representations of David in the Durham Cassiodorus,” Studies in Iconography 28 (2007): 23-50 [Waldo Library Stacks: NX 1 .S84 and RRC: Offprint collection]

and after spring recess (due dates yet to be determined:

for discussion: William Noel, “The Utrecht Psalter in England: Continuity and Experiment,” In The Utrecht Psalter in Medieval Art: Picturing the Psalms of David, ed. Koert van der Horst et al. (Tuurdijk: HES, 1996.), pp. 120-65 [Waldo Library Special Collections and RRC: OVERSIZE BX 2033 .U87 1996]

for discussion: Theresa Gross-Diaz, “From Lectio Divina to the Lecture Room: The Psalm Commentary of Gilbert of Pointiers,” in The Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages, ed. Nancy van Deusen, SUNY Series in Medieval Studies (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), pp. 91-104 [Waldo Library electronic book; Waldo Library Reserve and RRC: BS 1430.5 .P57 1999]

for discussion: Elizabeth A. Peterson, “Scholastic Hermeneutics in Historiated Initials of 13th-Century French Psalters,” in The Illuminated Psalter: Studies in the Content, Purpose and Placement of Its Images, ed. F. O. Büttner (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 349-59 and figures 327-42 [RRC: Offprint collection]

for discussion: Lucy Freeman Sandler, “The Word in the Text and the Image in the Margin: The Case of the Luttrell Psalter,” Journal of the Walters Arts Gallery 54 (1996): 87-99 [RRC: Offprint collection]

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