Leading sixteenth-century scholars such as Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus used print technology to engage in dialogue and debate with authoritative contemporary texts. By what Juan Luis Vives termed 'the unfolding of words,' these humanists gave old works new meanings in brief notes and extensive commentaries, full paraphrases, or translations. This critique challenged the Middle Ages' deference to authors and authorship and resulted in some of the most original thought - and most violent controversy - of the Renaissance and Reformation.
The Unfolding of Words brings together international scholarship to explore crucial changes in writers' interactions with religious and classical texts. This collection focuses particularly on commentaries by Erasmus, contextualizing his Annotations and Paraphrases on the New Testament against broader currents and works by such contemporaries as Franēois Rabelais and Jodocus Badius. The Unfolding of Words tracks humanist explorations of the possibilities of the page that led to the modern dictionary, encyclopedia, and scholarly edition.
Recenzijos
The great value of present collection is the degree to which these essays demonstrate the indispensability of commentary in the Renaissance, how integral theories and practices of commentary were to a vibrant intellectual world. - Russ Leo (Sixteenth Century Journal vol 65:02:2014) This is an excellent volume - an education for the novice and a provocation to further scholarship to the expert. - R. Ward Holder (Renaissance Quarterly vol 66:04:2013)
Preface Acknowledgements
Part One: Genres of Sixteenth-Century Commentary
One: Theory and Practices of Commentary in the Renaissance
Jean Céard, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Part Two: The Biblical Scholarship of Erasmus
Two: Erasmus's Paraphrases: A 'New Kind of Commentary'?
Jean-Franēois Cottier, Université Paris-7 Diderot and Université de
Montréal
Editor's Addendum: Translating an Erasmian Definition of Paraphrase
Judith Rice Henderson, University of Saskatchewan
Three: The Actor in the Story: Horizons of Interpretation in Erasmus's
Annotations on Luke
Mark Vessey, University of British Columbia
Four: The Function of Ambrosiaster in Erasmus's Annotations on the Epistle
to the Galatians
Riemer Faber, University of Waterloo, Ontario
Five: Erasmus's Biblical Scholarship in the Toronto Project
Robert D. Sider, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania and University of
Saskatchewan
Part Three: Religious Contexts of Printed Commentary
Six: 'Virtual Classroom': Josse Bade's Commentaries for the Pious Reader
Mark Crane, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario
Seven: Embedded Commentary in Luther's Translation of Romans 3
Gordon A. Jensen, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon
Eight: Commenting on Hatred of Commentaries: Les Censures des Théologiens
Revised by Robert Estienne
Hélčne Cazes, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Part Four: Developments in Humanist Philology
Nine: Rabelais's Lost Stratagemata (ca. 1539): A Commentary on Frontinus?
Claude La Charité, Université du Québec ą Rimouski
Ten: Commentaries on Tacitus by Justus Lipsius: Their Editing and Printing
History
Appendix I: A Survey of Lipsius's Editions of Tacitus (Text and/or
Commentary)
Appendix II: The Praenomen of Tacitus: Why Lipsius Preferred Caius to
Publius
Appendix III: The Annotations in Leiden UL, 762 C 4 as Source of the Curae
secundae
Appendix IV: Lipsius's Evolving Commentaries: Two Examples in the 1585
Edition, Curae secundae, and 1588 Edition
Jeanine De Landtsheer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Judith Rice Henderson is a professor in the Department of English and is active in the Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Saskatchewan.
