This issue of "Zeitsprünge" collects a variety of theoretical approaches to and exemplary readings of medieval and early modern practices of commentary from the point of view of Arabic, Latin, Jewish, English, German, and Romance Studies. Since antiquity, commentaries have accompanied sacred, cultural, and literary texts, serving to justify their relevance and canonicity. They have been instruments for the transmission of legal and religious norms and values, as well as purveyors of ancient knowledge which has to be preserved verbatim, and yet be kept open for future communication. At times, the commentary even attains a sovereignty of interpretation that can supersede or push aside any original intentions of the text. Thus, the study of commentary is key to describing aspects of authority, institutionality, creativity, and textual empowerment from a comparative perspective. The articles in this issue highlight the role that the study of commentary can play in a historical understanding of premodern and early modern textuality, epistemology, and mediality.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-3-465-04416-1
ISBN-Online
978-3-465-14416-8
Publisher
Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series
Zeitsprünge
Volume
24
Language
English
Pages
270
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - IV
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 5 Christina Lechtermann, Markus Stock
Marginal Commentaries in Ḥadīṯ Manuscripts No access Pages 6 - 44 Stefanie Brinkmann
The Place of the Medieval in Qur’an Commentary No access Pages 45 - 54 Walid A. Saleh
Commentary and Text Organization in al-Jāḥiẓ’sBook of Animals No access Pages 55 - 86 Jeannie Miller
The Pedagogy of Twelfth-Century Cathedral School Biblical Commentaries No access Pages 87 - 103 Simon Whedbee
Medieval Commentary on the "Thebaid" and its Reception No access Pages 104 - 121 Anthony J. Fredette
Ekphrasis and Commentary in Walter of Chatillon’s "Alexandreis" No access Pages 122 - 138 Suzanne Conklin Akbari
About Form and Function of German Vernacular Commentaries No access Pages 139 - 159 Jennifer Gerber
Commentary as Literature. The Medieval 'Glossenlied' No access Pages 160 - 180 Christina Lechtermann
Performing Commentary. Preaching the Apocalyptic Drama in Early Modern England No access Pages 181 - 198 Daniel Dornhofer
Veils and Naked Words. Girolamo Benivieni’s Self-Commentaries No access Pages 199 - 217 Christine Ott
Mirroring Authorization in Torquato Tasso’s "Rime Amorose" No access Pages 218 - 237 Philip Stockbrugger
Letters as Comment on Commentary No access Pages 238 - 258 Magnus Ulrich Ferber, Philipp Knüpffer
