The Unfolding of Words : : Commentary in the Age of Erasmus / / Judith Rice Henderson.

• VerfasserIn: Henderson, Judith Rice ,
• MitwirkendeR: Cazes, Hélène,; Charité, Claude La,; Cottier, Jean-François,; Crane, Mark,; Céard, Jean,; Faber, Riemer,; Jensen, Gordon A.,; Landtsheer, Jeanine De,; Rice Henderson, Judith,; Sider, Robert D.,; Vessey, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

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 François 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part one. GENRES OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY COMMENTARY -- One. Theory and Practices of Commentary in the Renaissance -- Part two. THE BIBLICAL SCHOLAR SHIP OF ERASMUS -- Two. Erasmus's Paraphrases: A 'New Kind of Commentary'? -- Editor's Addendum -- Three. The Actor in the Story: Horizons of Interpretation in Erasmus's Annotations on Luke -- Four. The Function of Ambrosiaster in Erasmus's Annotations on the Epistle to the Galatians -- Five. Erasmus's Biblical Scholarship in the Toronto Project -- Part three. RELIGIOUS CONTEXTS OF PRINTED COMMENTARY -- Six. 'Virtual Classroom': Josse Bade's Commentaries for the Pious Reader -- Seven. Embedded Commentary in Luther's Translation of Romans 3 -- Eight. Commenting on Hatred of Commentaries: Les Censures des Théologiens Revised by Robert Estienne, 1552 -- Part four. DEVELOPMENTS IN HUMANIST PHILOLOGY -- Nine. Rabelais's Lost Stratagemata (ca. 1539): A Commentary on Frontinus? -- Ten. Commentaries on Tacitus by Justus Lipsius: Their Editing and Printing History -- Appendix 1. A Survey of Lipsius's Editions of Tacitus (Text and/or Commentary) -- Appendix 2. The Praenomen of Tacitus: Why Lipsius Preferred Caius to Publius -- Appendix 3. The Annotations in Leiden UL, 762 B 4 as Source of the Curae secundae -- Appendix 4. Lipsius's Evolving Commentaries: Two Examples in the 1585 Edition, Curae secundae, and 1588 Edition -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index