Simon Whedbee received his BA in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans, with minors in Classics and Medieval Studies. He studied Medieval Latin and Latin paleography at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, where he earned his MA and PhD. His doctoral dissertation, \u201cPeter Comestor\u2019s Lectures on the Gospel of Luke and its Glosses (c. 1163-8): A Partial Critical Edition and Study,\u201d contextualizes the pedagogical writings of an important medieval exegete, whose teachings on the Bible were influential throughout France in the decades before the formation of the University of Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
My current research investigates the impact of reading strategies cultivated in the Greco-Roman practice of ars grammatica <\/em>(formal grammar) on the medieval practice of sacra pagina <\/em>(study of the Bible). Ongoing projects also include editing a twelfth-century commentary on Virgil\u2019s Georgics attributed to Hilarius of Orl\u00e9ans, preparing a full edition of Comestor\u2019s Luke lectures, and exploring the development of the Roman concept of \u2018classical authors\u2019 in medieval debates over the relative value of ancient versus modern sources of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter Comestor: Lectures on the <\/em>Glossa ordinaria. Edited from Troyes, M\u00e9diath\u00e8que du Grand Troyes, MS 1024<\/em>. Edited by David Foley and Simon Whedbee. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies: Toronto Medieval Latin Texts, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Pedagogy of Twelfth Century Cathedral School Biblical Commentaries: Peter Comestor\u2019s Lectures on the Gospel of Luke,\u201d in Practices of Commentary<\/em>. Edited by Christina Lechtermann and Markus Stock, 87-103. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Study of the Bible in the Cathedral Schools of Twelfth-Century France: A Case Study of Robert Amiclas and Peter Comestor,\u201d in Education Materialised:<\/em> Reconstructing, Teaching and Learning Contexts through Manuscripts<\/em>. Edited by Stefanie Brinkmann, Giovanni Ciotti, Stefano Valente, and Eva Maria Wilden. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n University of Toronto, Loyola University New Orleans Simon Whedbee received his BA in English Literature from Loyola University New Orleans, with minors in Classics and Medieval Studies. He studied Medieval Latin and Latin paleography at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, where he earned his MA and PhD. His doctoral dissertation, \u201cPeter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[204,210,208,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-1646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"tag-biblical-exegesis","9":"tag-latin-philology","10":"tag-medieval-france","11":"tag-medieval-reception","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Publications related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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