Artes and Bible in the Medieval West

The articles in this volume fall into two main groups, the one dealing with secular learning and especially grammar and logic, the other with biblical scholarship, while the final articles look at the work of particular scholars. Margaret Gibson, however, would see them all as closely interrelated. Scholars in the Latin West, from the end of Antiquity right through the 12th century, were united in the belief that all knowledge, if true, was compatible and that sapientia was one and coherent. In the same way, she would hold, it is impossible to study only the artes given their implication for Bible, nor only Bible, when every commentator thought within the context of the artes. Les articles contenus dans ce volume se divisent en deux catgories principales: la premire traitant du savoir sculaire et, plus particulirement, de la grammaire et de la logique; la seconde sattachant au savoir biblique avec, pour finir, un nombre darticles examinant loeuvre de certains rudits. Margaret Gibson considre toutes ces tudes comme tant interdpendantes. Les rudits de lOccident latin, de la fin de lAntiquit celle du 12e sicle, taient unis dans la conviction que toutes connaissances vridiques taient compatibles entre elles et que la sapience formait un tout cohrent. Par l mme, lauteur maintient quil est impossible de sadonner uniquement ltude des artes, tant donne leur implication pour la Bible, ou mme ltude de cette dernire, alors que la pense de chacun des commentateurs tait formule dans le contexte de artes.