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Profound study of one of the most important genres within Humanist scholarship
Between 1400 and 1700 the political, religious, intellectual, and even geographic landscape was profoundly changed by the Reformation, Humanism, the rise of empirical science, the invention of printing technology, and the discovery of the New World. The late medieval and early modern intellectuals felt an urgent need to respond to the changes they were involved in, and to come to a revision and re-authorisation of knowledge. They embarked on a scholarly programme of a quality and extent hitherto unknown in the Western world: the whole body of the literature of antiquity, including the Bible, was to be re-edited critically and furnished with commentaries. The Neo-Latin commentary became the most important genre of humanist scholarship. This book sheds light on the various ways in which classical authors and the Bible were commented on, the types of commentary, the commenting strategies that were used to approach different readerships, the various kinds of knowledge that were collected, created, and transmitted, and the usages and reading practices applied to commentaries.

Contributors
K. Enenkel (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster), S. de Beer (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society), C. Kallendorf (Texas A&M University), C. Pieper (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society), M. Pade (Aarhus University), V. Berlincourt (Université de Genève), J. Bloemendal (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands), V. Wels (Berlin), W. J. Zwalve (Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law, Leiden University), B. H. Stolte (University of Groningen), B. Roling (Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin), H. Nellen (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands), J. Touber (Utrecht University)

Table of Contents

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. v-viii
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. Introduction: Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge
  2. pp. 1-76
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  1. I. Historical And Geographical Collections Of Knowledge
  1. The World Upside Down: The Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny’s Natural History and Mela’s De situ orbis (1450-1700)
  2. Susanna De Beer
  3. pp. 139-198
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  1. II. Classical Poetry
  1. Virgil and the Ethical Commentary: Philosophy, Commonplaces, and the Structure of Renaissance Knowledge
  2. Craig Kallendorf
  3. pp. 201-220
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  1. Horatius praeceptor eloquentiae. The Ars Poetica in Cristoforo Landino’s Commentary
  2. Christoph Pieper
  3. pp. 221-240
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  1. Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu copiae: The Commentary as a Repository of Knowledge
  2. Marianne Pade
  3. pp. 241-262
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  1. ‘Going beyond the Author’: Caspar von Barth’s Observations on the Art of Commentary-Writing and his Use of Exegetical Digressions
  2. Valéry Berlincourt
  3. pp. 263-292
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  1. III. Drama
  1. In the Shadow of Donatus: Observations on Terence and Some of his Early Modern Commentators
  2. Jan Bloemendal
  3. pp. 295-324
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  1. Contempt for Commentators: Transformation of the Commentary Tradition in Daniel Heinsius’ Constitutio tragoediae
  2. Volkhard Wels
  3. pp. 325-346
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  1. IV. Law
  1. Text & Commnentary: The Legal Middle Ages and the Roman Law Tradition: Justinian’s Const. Omnem and its Medieval Commentators
  2. Willem J. Zwalve
  3. pp. 349-386
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  1. Text and Commentary: Legal Humanism
  2. Bernard H. Stolte
  3. pp. 387-406
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  1. V. Bible
  1. Animalische Sprache und Intelligenz im Schriftkommentar: Bileams Esel in der Bibelkommentierung des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit
  2. Bernd Roling
  3. pp. 409-444
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  1. Bible Commentaries as a Platform for Polemical Debate: Abraham Calovius versus Hugo Grotius
  2. Henk Nellen
  3. pp. 445-472
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  1. Philology and Theology: Commenting the Old Testament in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1700
  2. Jetze Touber
  3. pp. 473-510
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  1. Notes on the Contributors
  2. pp. 511-514
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 515-526
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