Neo-Latin commentaries and the management of knowledge in the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1400-1700) / edited by Karel Enenkel & Henk Nellen.

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20 English, 2 German contributions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1400-1700); Copyright ; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction ; 1. The Neo-Latin Commentary (1400-1700): a Forgotten and Misunderstood Genre; 2. The Increased Importance of the Commentary and Other Paratexts in the Early Modern Period; 3. The Commentary as an Open Genre. The Early Modern Commentary's Tendency toward Emancipation from the Source Text; 4. The Kaleidoscopic Functions of the Early Modern Commentary

A. The Commentary as a Means of Authorizationb. The Commentary as an Educational Tool at Schools and Universities; c. Early Modern Commentaries as Encyclopedias of Learning; d. Commentaries and Textual Criticism; e. Commentaries and the Cultural History of Antiquity (Ars Antiquitatis); f. Political Commentary; g. Commentaries as Stimuli for Social Cohesion and as Polemical Platforms; h. Parafrasis as Literary Exercise; i. Manuscript Annotations in Printed Books; 5. The Layout of the Early Modern Commentary; 6. Indexing

7. Related Genres: Variae Lectiones, Dictionarium (Dictionary) and Encyclopedia8. The Commentary in Historical Perspective; 9. The Present Volume; I Historical and Geographical Collections of Knowledge; Kommentare als multivalente Wissenssammlungen: Das 'Fürstenspiegel'-Kommentarwerk Antonio Beccadellis(De dictis et factis Alphonsi Regis Aragonum, 1455),Enea Silvio Piccolominis (1456) und Jakob Spiegels (1537); Beccadelli's Sammlung; Enea Silvios Kommentar; Johann Adolph Mülichs Facetiae Adelphinae; Die Kommentare des Jakob Spiegel; Auswahlbibliographie

The World Upside Down: The Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny's Natural History and Mela's De situ orbis (1450-1700)Introduction; Commentaries on the Natural History of Pliny; Pliny and the Reformation: the Commentaries of Jacobus Ziegler (1531) and Jacobus Milichius (1535); Pliny and the Early Modern Naturalists: the Commentary of Jacobus Dalechamps (1587); The Culmination of Plinian Scholarship: the Commentary of Joannes Harduinus (1685); Commentaries on Pomponius Mela's De Situ Orbis; Challenging Ancient Authority: the Commentary by Joachim Vadianus

Amplification and Harmonization: the Commentary by Sebastian MünsterThe Reconstruction of Mela's Thought: the Commentary by Isaac Vossius; Conclusion; Bibliography; II Classical Poetry; Virgil and the Ethical Commentary: Philosophy, Commonplaces, and the Structure ofRenaissance Knowledge ; Introduction; Landino and Plato; Regulus and Aristotle; Coyssard and the Alphabetical Organization of Knowledge; Conclusion; Bibliography; Horatius Praeceptor Eloquentiae: The Ars Poetica in Cristoforo Landino's Commentary; Bibliography

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