Nicholas of Lyra Medieval Theologians Theology

Sites related to Nicholas of Lyra (1270-1340), a Franciscan exegete whose Postillae (commentaries on Scripture) were second in popularity only to the Glossa ordinaria. Nicholas contended that the literal sense of Scripture, including the author's intent, must be the foundation for any spiritual interpretation.

• The Authority of Text: Nicholas of Lyra's Judaeo-Christian Hermeneutic and The Canterbury Tales - Reading Chaucer by way of the fourteenth-century French exegete. Article medieval by Rhonda Wauhkonen.
• Sacred Texts - Two photos of a late fifteenth-century printed copy of Nicholas medieval of Lyra\\'s Moralia super totam Bibliam, from the Golda Meir medieval Library at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
• Nicholas of Lyra - Exegete, author of postillae, insisted that the literal sense of Scripture is the foundation for any spiritual interpretation.

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