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 Francois 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.
By:
Judith Rice Henderson
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781487565251
ISBN 10: 1487565259
Series: Erasmus Studies
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 13 November 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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-François 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 Hélène 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 à 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.
Reviews for The Unfolding of Words: Commentary in the Age of Erasmus
‘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 *
