Glossae – Scholia – Commentarii: Studies on Commenting Texts in Antiquity and Middle Ages (Studies in Classical Literature and Culture)

The role of commentary as a basic method of research used broadly in both Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages still awaits further analysis. Commentary as a research and didactic method becomes especially interesting in a multicultural perspective: were Buddhist and Arabic texts commented in the same way as it was done by late antique and medieval scholars? The extensive medieval commentary literature still awaits scholarly assessment from the perspective of theory of literature as well as methodology and history of various scientific disciplines. Cover Table of Contents Introduction Qumran Pesharim as an Example of an Accommodative Commentary (Dorota Muszytowska) 1. Circumstances of pesharim development 2. Pesharim characteristics 2.1. The etymology and semantics of the word pēšer 2.2. Pesher as a literary genre and a method of commenting 3. The technique of recontextualization in selected examples from 1QpHab Conclusion Summary Buddhist Tradition in Quest of the Authenticity and the True Meaning of the ‘Word of the Buddha’(buddha-vacana) (Marek Mejor) §1 §1.1 §1.1.1 §1.2 §1.2.1 §1.3 §2. §2.1 §2.2 §3 §3.1 §3.2 §3.3 §4 §4.1 §4.2 §5 §5.1 §5.2 §5.3 §5.4 §5.5 §6 §6.1 §7 §7.1 §7.2 §7.3 §7.4 §7.5 §8 §8.1 §8.2 §8.3 §8.4 §9 §9.1 §9.2 §10 §10.1 §10.2 §10.3 §11 §11.1 §11.2 §12 Bibliography The Muslim Tradition of Commentary: Ibn Rushd’s (Averroes’s) Commentaries on the Works of Aristotle (Katarzyna Pachniak) Bibliography Further Reading Prose Criticism in the Bush Warbler’s Hideout: Mumyōzōshi as the Earliest Literary Critical Commentary on Genji monogatari (Adam Bednarczyk) Alleged author and date of Mumyōzōshi The most difficult thing to give up in this world Magic of a rainy night The way of judging Mumyōzōshi on Genji’s chapters Fascinating, pleasant, and pitiful women Essay on men and Genji’s miscellanea Conclusion Bibliography Andrew of Caesarea’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation and Its Role in Medieval Orthodox Slavonic Literature (Paweł Dziadul) Bibliography Hieronymus’ Revision of Victorinus’ Commentary and Augustine’s Summary of Tyconius’ Rules (Dominika Budzanowska) I. Victorinus and Hieronymus Differences between Hieronymus and Victorinus in their commentaries on the Apocalypse 20 a. Victorinus wrote b. Hieronymus explained Differences between Hieronymus and Victorinus in their commentaries on the Apocalypse 21: the Holy Jerusalem – civitas sancta a. Victorinus wrote b. Hieronymus explained II. Tyconius and Augustine The second and the seventh rules. Byzantine Theory of Paraphrase in Rhetorical Treatises and Commentaries and the Original Version of Theon’s Progymnasmata (Angelika Modlińska-Piekarz) Conclusion Ancient Commenting Literature and the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville (Krzysztof Morta) Commenting with Hexameter. The Imagery of Light and Darkness in Nonnus’ Poetic Exegesis of John 3:1–21 (Filip Doroszewski) The sun and the moon The mysteries of light and darkness Conclusions Abbreviations Bibliography Some Remarks on the Super Esaiam of Pseudo–Joachim of Fiore (Adam Poznański) Aristotélisme ou thomisme? La dispute sur le caractère du discours de l’éthique dans le Commentaire de saint Thomas à L’Éthique à Nicomaque (Izabella Andrzejuk) 1. La position de Fernand van Steenberghen sur la question du Commentaire Thomasien à L’Éthique à Nicomaque 2. La position d’Étienne Gilson sur la question de Commentaire Thomasien à l’Éthique à Nicomaque d’Aristote Conclusion Le commentaire de Thomas d’Aquin à Liber de causis – odyssée de textes et de conceptions à travers les cultures, les époques et les écoles philosophiques (Artur Andrzejuk) Features of an Explanatio in Three Commentaries from Around the End of the Middle Ages. Some Observations on Commentum of John of Dąbrówka and on Commentaries on Theodulus and Facetus (Lyon 1514) (Dorota Gacka) Commentaries on the Decalogue in the Late Middle Ages: Between Method and Catechesis. Poland in the European Context. The State of Research and Perspectives (Krzysztof Bracha) “Spiritu ambulate”, id est racionis ductu. Fifteenth-Century Latin Glosses on the Apostolic Letters (Agnieszka Maciąg) The aim of the book is to present a literary genre - the commentary as a main form of scientific literature in Antiquity and Middle Ages. The collectanea of studies of specialists in Asian and European literatures and historians of philosophy show the multicultural viewpoint of this problem.