Sicut dicit
Editing Ancient and Medieval Commentaries on Authoritative Texts
Edited by S. Boodts Edited by P. De Leemans Edited by S. Schorn Edited by Shari Boodts Edited by Pieter De Leemans Edited by Stefan Schorn
An exploration of the methodological challenges associated with editing commentaries on authoritative texts
The manifold commentaries on the authoritative texts of Antiquity and the Middle Ages are increasingly being recognized as witnesses to a rich tradition of cultural reception and intellectual engagement. This renewed interest goes hand-in-hand with an increased demand for critical editions of the texts in question. However, the genre of the commentary presents a number of specific, sometimes unique challenges to the editor. An ancient or medieval text that comments on another one is inevitably shaped by it. The commentary can cite the commented work or copy its structure and regularly the two are presented together on the page, leading to complex relations between the texts and the manner of their presentation. Modern scholarship on the authoritative text that is commented on will often find it useful to consider the commentary. Vice versa, the editor of the commentary cannot turn a blind eye to the text commented on. Especially in the case of authoritative texts, both the commented text and the commentary usually have a complex transmission history. This volume explores the methodological challenges associated with the editing of commentaries on authoritative texts and shows their potential for the textual constitution of the latter ones. Bringing together twelve case studies spanning Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, on texts written in Greek and Latin from a variety of fields, including literature, theology, philosophy, medicine, and law, the volume offers a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on commentaries on authoritative texts and the editors’ work to accurately reconstruct and present them.
- Edited by S. Boodts
- Edited by P. De Leemans
- Edited by S. Schorn
- Edited by Shari Boodts
- Edited by Pieter De Leemans
- Edited by Stefan Schorn
Other Titles in this Series
Le pere du siecle
The Early Modern Reception of Jean Gerson (1363-1429): Theological Authority between Middle Ages and Early Modern Era
Volume 14
On Good Authority
Tradition, Compilation and the Construction of Authority in Literature from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Volume 3
Shaping Authority
How did a person become an authority in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?
Volume 4
Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425-1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 1
Volume 17
Innovationes Lovanienses: Arts, Law and Theology at the University of Louvain (1425–1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 2
Volume 18
Towards the Authority of Vesalius
Studies on Medicine and the Human Body from Antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond
Volume 6
Networking through Biography
Constructing Intellectual Junctions in Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Arabo-Islamic World
Volume 19
Outsiders and Forerunners
Modern Reason and Historiographical Births of Medieval Philosophy
Volume 5
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