Practices of Commentary: Medieval Traditions and Transmissions

Carol Symes

doi:10.1017/9781802701593

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Medieval Traditions and Transmissions

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Edited by Amanda Goodman, University of Toronto, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
General editor Carol Symes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781802701593
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781802701593

Subjects:: Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Regional History after 1500
Series:: The Medieval Globe

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The comparative or connected study of localized intellectual traditions poses special challenges to the global turn in medieval studies. How can we enable conversations across language groups and intricate cultural formations, as well as disciplines? Practices of commentary offer a compelling opportunity: their visual layouts reveal assumptions about the relative status of text and gloss, while interpretive interlinear or marginal prompts capture the dynamic relationships among generations of teachers, students, and readers. The material traces of manuscript usage - from hastily scrawled marginal notes to vivid rubrication - illuminate the shared didactic and communicative practices developed within scholarly communities. By bringing together researchers working on specific cultures and discourses across Eurasia, this volume moves toward a global account of premodern commentary traditions.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Introduction: Commentary at the Crossroads
pp 1-8

Graeco-Roman Commentary Beyond Alexandria: Problems and Prospects
pp 9-28

From Plane to Space: The Narrative Arc of a Byzantine Mathematical Manual
pp 29-48

Periodization in the Sunni Qur'an Commentary Tradition: A Chronological History of a Genre
pp 49-64

On the Practice of Autocommentary in Sanskrit Sources
pp 65-90

Oral Commentaries and Scholarly Debates in Sanskrit Philosophy
pp 91-106

On the Nature of Chinese Buddhist Scriptural Exegesis: Observations on the Commentaries of Chengguan, Woncheuk, and Other Sui-Tang Exegetes
pp 107-138

The Mise-En-Page of a Sino-Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscript: Yuanhui's Commentary on the Laṅkāvatārasūtra
pp 139-170

Commentary and Multilingualism in the Ottoman Reception of Texts: Three Perspectives
pp 171-194

Index
pp 195-203

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