Discusses the Bible in medieval society within and beyond monastic and ecclesiastical schools, and also in literature, drama and art.

Richard Marsden is Emeritus Professor of Old English at the University of Nottingham. His published works include The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England (1995) and an edition of The Old English Heptateuch and Ælfric's Libellus de ueteri testamento et nouo (2008), along with other books and articles on scriptural translation and the Latin Bible.

Part I. Texts and Versions: 1. The Hebrew Bible Judith Olszowy-Schlanger; 2. The Greek Christian Bible Barbara Crostini; 3. Jewish Greek Bible versions Nicholas de Lange; 4. The Bible in Latin c.600 to c.900 Pierre-Maurice Bogaert; 5. The Bible in Latin c.900 to Trent Frans van Liere; 6. The Bible in Ethiopic Ephraim Isaac; 7. The Bible in Arabic Sidney H. Griffith; 8. The Bible in Armenian S. Peter Cowe; 9. The Bible in Georgian Jeff W. Childers; 10. The Bible in Slavonic Henry Cooper; 11. The Bible in Germanic Andrew Colin Gow; 12. The Bible in English Richard Marsden; 13. The Bible in the languages of Scandinavia Bodil Ejrnæs; 14. The Bible in French Clive R. Sneddon; 15. The Bible in Italian Lino Leonardi; 16. The Bible in Spanish Gemma Avenoza; Part II. Format and Transmission: 17. The Bibles of the Christian East Georgi R. Parpulov; 18. Carolingian Bibles David Ganz; 19. The Latin gospelbook c.600-1200 Dorothy Shepard; 20. The glossed Bible Lesley Smith; 21. The thirteenth-century Bible: Paris and beyond Laura Light; 22. Romanesque display Bibles Dorothy Shepard; 23. Latin and vernacular apocalypses Nigel Morgan; 24. The Latin Psalter Theresa Gross-Diaz; 25. Illustration in Biblical manuscripts: East and West John Lowden; Part III. The Bible Interpreted: 26. Byzantine Orthodox exegesis Tia M. Kolbaba; 27. The Patristic legacy: exegesis to c.1000 John J. Contreni; 28. The early schools, c.900-1100 Guy Lobrichon; 29. The Bible in Medieval universities William J. Courtenay; 30. Scripture and reform Mary Dove; 31. Jewish Biblical exegesis from its beginnings to the twelfth century Robert A. Harris; 32. The Bible in Jewish-Christian dialogue Anna Sapir Abulafia; 33. The Bible in Muslim-Christian encounters David Waines; Part IV. The Bible in Use: 34. The Bible in the Medieval liturgy, c.600-1300 Joseph Dyer; 35. The use of the Bible in preaching Siegfried Wenzel; 36. The Bible in the spiritual literature of the Medieval West E. Ann Matter; 37. Literacy and the Bible Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner; 38. The Bible and canon law Gerald Bray; 39. The Qur'an and the Bible Angelika Neuwirth; Part V. The Bible Transformed: 40. The Bible in public art 600-1050 John Mitchell; 41. The Bible in public art 1050-1450 C. M. Kauffmann; 42. Icons of the Eastern Church Robin Cormack; 43. Medieval verse paraphrases of the Bible Evelyn Birge Vitz; 44. Staging the Bible Lynette R. Muir.