Guillelmi de Luxi Postilla super Baruch, Postilla super Ionam. Edited by ANDREW T. SULAVIK.

Abstract

The Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Medievalis puts medievalists in its debt not only by publishing a steady stream of modern editions of familiar texts and adding new ones, but by going beyond the chronological limit set by J.-P. Migne's decision to end his Latin series of the Patrologia with Innocent III (at the very moment when universities were coming into existence, the academic study of the Bible was reaching new levels of sophistication, and the mendicant orders were giving a new meaning to preparation for preaching). Here is a gap-filler exemplifying the genre of the ‘postill’, the fruit of what the editor describes as ‘the reshaping of the biblical commentary … particularly by the Dominican masters at Paris’ (p. ix). The development of the genre so soon after the (more or less) completion of the differently conceived Glossa Ordinaria, and with an intended special relevance to the needs of a new kind of preacher, marks a significant stage in the development of medieval exegesis.