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A collation of Medieval commentaries on the Cleansing finds that they divide into three categories. The first is the “Gregorian” group. Men closely associated with Gregory VII and identified with the Reform had an interest in the Cleansing of the Temple that was intense, and their accounts are the fullest. It is with them that we find direct personal connections with the Matilda Gospels.

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Rough, R.H. (1973). Medieval Commentaries on the Cleansing. In: The Reformist of Illuminations in the Gospels of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1983-5_5

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