Memorizing the Bible in the Middle Ages? Summarium biblicum on the border of intelligibility

Abstract

Analysis of late medieval biblical mnemonic verses, Summarium biblicum and its manuscript transmission. The author tries to answer the quastion why the text does not seem to be suitable for remembering the Bible today.

Keywords

• Middle Ages
• medieval manuscripts
• medieval Latin
• medieval literature
• memory
• mnemonics
• Bible
• biblical mnemonics