Literal Sense and the Gospel of John in Late Medieval Commentary and Literature John W. Langford Part II considers the natural

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Literal Sense and the Gospel of John in Late Medieval Commentary and Literature John W. Langford Part II considers the naturalFocusing on the famous Medieval commentator Nicolas of Lyra and the anonymous Middle English biblical adaptation of the Gospel of John, the Cursor Mundi, this book examines the development of the analytical tools of biblical literary criticism showing how late Medieval commentators negotiated the paradoxical interdependence of the literal and spiritual senses, as transmitted by traditional and inherited vocabularies, through a focus on narrative