Speakers
Description
My current project investigates how the Roman conquest of Jerusalem (70 CE) was deployed in medieval Latin texts between c.400 and c.1300. This includes building up a database that catalogues each occurrence that I can find, counting at the moment c.2200 entries, and eventually probably c.2500 entries. Deploying the Roman conquest was both an intense textual engagement with biblical references such as Lk. 19.41 and a process of recycling (but also adapting) what earlier authors such as Gregory the Great had already written about the event. This talk shall outline some of the project's strategies for determining the use of preexistent textual materials in the pertinent texts, and how this dimension is presented in the database for the use of future scholarship.