Download or read book Nicholas of Lyra written by Philip D. W. Krey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern study of Nicholas of Lyra, immensely influential fourteenth-century Franciscan biblical commentator. Fifteen essays on his masterpiece, the "Postillae super totam Bibliam," illuminate the remarkable achievement of this key thinker, from his knowledge of Hebrew to political ideas.