Glossae - Scholia - Commentarii ― Studies on Commenting Texts in Antiquity and Middle Ages

Providing a collection of studies focused on the practice of commenting in the context of different cultures and periods with the aim of increasing the number of interdisciplinary meetings and projects devoted to commentaries on culture and isagogic literature, the editors bring together eminent scholars—orientalists, medievalists, and medieval history historians--from various Polish universities in order to reveal the hithero concealed. Fifteen essays cover Qumran Pesharim as an example of an accommodative commentary; Buddhist tradition in quest of the authenticity and the true meaning of the “word of the Buddha”; the Muslim tradition of commentary; prose criticism in the Bush Warbler’s hideout; Andrew of Caesarea’s commentary on the Book of Revelation and its role in medieval orthodox Slavonic literature; Hieronymus’ revision of Victorinus’ commentary and Augustine’s summary of Tyconius’ Rules; Byzantine theory of paraphrase in rhetorical treatises and commentaries and the original version of Theon’s Progymnasmata; ancient commenting literature and the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville; commenting with Hexameter; some remarks on the Super Esaiam of pseudo-Joachim of Fiore; Aristotelisme ou thomisme?; Le commentaire de Thomas d’Aquin a Liber de caysus; features of an Explanatio in Three Commentaries from Around the End of the Middle Ages; commentaries on the Decalogue in the late middle ages; ”spiritu ambulate”, id est racionis ductu. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Mieczyslaw Mejor, a medievalist and neo-latinist, is Professor in the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Head of the Chair of Medieval and Neolatin Literature, Institute of Classical Philology and Culture Studies, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (Poland).
Katarzyna Jazdzewska, a Hellenist, is employed at the Chair of Greek Language and Literature in the Institute of Classical Philology and Culture Studies, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (Poland).
Anna Zajchowska, a medievalist, is employed at the Chair of Medieval and Neolatin Literature, Institute of Classical Philology and Culture Studies, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (Poland).