Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Abbreviations xix
6. Part one. GENRES OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY COMMENTARY
7. One. Theory and Practices of Commentary in the Renaissance 3
8. Part two. THE BIBLICAL SCHOLAR SHIP OF ERASMUS
9. Two. Erasmus’s Paraphrases: A ‘New Kind of Commentary’? 27
10. Editor’s Addendum 46
11. Three. The Actor in the Story: Horizons of Interpretation in Erasmus’s Annotations on Luke 55
12. Four. The Function of Ambrosiaster in Erasmus’s Annotations on the Epistle to the Galatians 70
13. Five. Erasmus’s Biblical Scholarship in the Toronto Project 86
14. Part three. RELIGIOUS CONTEXTS OF PRINTED COMMENTARY
15. Six. ‘Virtual Classroom’: Josse Bade’s Commentaries for the Pious Reader 101
16. Seven. Embedded Commentary in Luther’s Translation of Romans 3 118
17. Eight. Commenting on Hatred of Commentaries: Les Censures des Théologiens Revised by Robert Estienne, 1552 140
18. Part four. DEVELOPMENTS IN HUMANIST PHILOLOGY
19. Nine. Rabelais’s Lost Stratagemata (ca. 1539): A Commentary on Frontinus? 167
20. Ten. Commentaries on Tacitus by Justus Lipsius: Their Editing and Printing History 188
21. Appendix 1. A Survey of Lipsius’s Editions of Tacitus (Text and/or Commentary) 233
22. Appendix 2. The Praenomen of Tacitus: Why Lipsius Preferred Caius to Publius 234
23. Appendix 3. The Annotations in Leiden UL, 762 B 4 as Source of the Curae secundae 236
24. Appendix 4. Lipsius’s Evolving Commentaries: Two Examples in the 1585 Edition, Curae secundae, and 1588 Edition 240
25. Works Cited 243
26. Contributors 263
27. Index 267