{"product_id":"the-unfolding-of-words-commentary-in-the-age-of-erasmus-paperback-softback-9781487565251","title":"The Unfolding of Words; Commentary in the Age of Erasmus (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487565251","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Unfolding of Words\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCommentary in the Age of Erasmus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJudith Rice Henderson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487565251\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.43 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e‘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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeading 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Unfolding of Words\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cem\u003e Annotations and Paraphrases on the New Testament\u003c\/em\u003e against broader currents and works by such contemporaries as François Rabelais and Jodocus Badius. \u003cem\u003eThe Unfolding of Words\u003c\/em\u003e tracks humanist explorations of the possibilities of the page that led to the modern dictionary, encyclopedia, and scholarly edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One: Genres of Sixteenth-Century Commentary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne: Theory and Practices of Commentary in the Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eJean Céard, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two: The Biblical Scholarship of Erasmus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo: Erasmus's Paraphrases: A 'New Kind of Commentary'?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eJean-François Cottier, Université Paris-7 Diderot and Université de Montréal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditor's Addendum: Translating an Erasmian Definition of Paraphrase\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eJudith Rice Henderson, University of Saskatchewan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree: The Actor in the Story: Horizons of Interpretation in Erasmus's Annotations on Luke\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eMark Vessey, University of British Columbia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFour: The Function of Ambrosiaster in Erasmus's Annotations on the Epistle to the Galatians\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eRiemer Faber, University of Waterloo, Ontario\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFive: Erasmus's Biblical Scholarship in the Toronto Project\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eRobert D. Sider, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania and University of Saskatchewan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Three: Religious Contexts of Printed Commentary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSix: 'Virtual Classroom': Josse Bade's Commentaries for the Pious Reader\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eMark Crane, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeven: Embedded Commentary in Luther's Translation of Romans 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eGordon A. Jensen, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEight: Commenting on Hatred of Commentaries: Les Censures des Théologiens Revised by Robert Estienne\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eHélène Cazes, University of Victoria, British Columbia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Part Four: Developments in Humanist Philology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNine: Rabelais's Lost Stratagemata (ca. 1539): A Commentary on Frontinus?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eClaude La Charité, Université du Québec à Rimouski\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTen: Commentaries on Tacitus by Justus Lipsius: Their Editing and Printing History\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix I: A Survey of Lipsius's Editions of Tacitus (Text and\/or Commentary)\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II: The Praenomen of Tacitus: Why Lipsius Preferred Caius to Publius\u003cbr\u003e Appendix III: The Annotations in Leiden UL, 762 C 4 as Source of the Curae secundae\u003cbr\u003e Appendix IV: Lipsius's Evolving Commentaries: Two Examples in the 1585 Edition, Curae secundae, and 1588 Edition \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJeanine De Landtsheer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599831331096,"sku":"9781487565251","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-unfolding-of-words-commentary-in-the-age-of-erasmus-paperback-softback-9781487565251","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}