{"id":994,"date":"2020-08-24T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/?p=994"},"modified":"2022-09-26T19:50:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T19:50:31","slug":"jonathan-brent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan BRENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jonathan Brent is the project manager for Practices of Commentary. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto\u2019s Centre for Medieval Studies in June 2021. His research focuses on revisionism, periodization, and anachronism in late medieval history-writing. His dissertation is a comprehensive study of Nicholas Trevet\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Cronicles&nbsp;<\/em>(c. 1334), an Anglo-Norman universal history most widely known for adaptation by Chaucer in the&nbsp;<em>Man of Law&#8217;s Tale<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The first chapter of Jonathan\u2019s dissertation engages extensively with Vincent of Beauvais\u2019 encyclopedic\u00a0<em>Speculum maius\u00a0<\/em>(\u201cGreat Mirror\u201d) (c. 1244\u20131263), one of Trevet\u2019s most trusted sources. A Dominican friar, Vincent had initially organized the\u00a0<em>SM\u00a0<\/em>as a series of entries on the virtues and vices, a format that would have made for easy reference conducive to the tasks of preaching and teaching. He soon came to realize, however, that this framework distorted \u201cthe complete nature of things,\u201d and that the only organizational method suited to an integral representation of the created world was that of the Bible. He thus revised the\u00a0<em>SM\u00a0<\/em>in accordance with \u201cthe order of Holy Scripture,\u201d and as such the disparate parts of his encyclopedia \u2013 individual \u201cmirrors\u201d covering the natural world, Christian doctrine, and universal history \u2013 unfold as Biblical commentary, with a treatise on \u201cbirds\u201d for example falling on the Fifth Day and the events of human history falling between the expulsion of Adam and Eve and the Apocalypse. Vincent demonstrates the complex relationship in Latin Europe between historical exegesis and history-writing.<br><br>Alongside Lorenzo DiTommaso (Concordia University) and Colin McAllister (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs), and Francis X. Gummerlock, Jonathan is also co-authoring a conspectus of commentaries on the Apocalypse of John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Constance and the Holy Land in the&nbsp;<em>Cronicles&nbsp;<\/em>of Nicholas Trevet.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Studies in the Age of Chaucer&nbsp;<\/em>45 (forthcoming, 2023).<br><br>\u201cViolence, Memory, and History: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Buried Giant<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry&nbsp;<\/em>8.3 (2021): pp. 323\u2013344.<br><br>\u201cThe Copyist of&nbsp;<em>Les Cronicles&nbsp;<\/em>in Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, ms. VGG F6.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of the Early Book Society&nbsp;<\/em>20 (2017): pp. 265\u2013270.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Brent is the project manager for Practices of Commentary. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto\u2019s Centre for Medieval Studies in June 2021. His research focuses on revisionism, periodization, and anachronism in late medieval history-writing. His dissertation is a comprehensive study of Nicholas Trevet\u2019s&nbsp;Cronicles&nbsp;(c. 1334), an Anglo-Norman universal history most widely known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-people","7":"category-practices-of-commentary","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalcommentary.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}