Preface Acknowledgements Part One: Genres of Sixteenth-Century Commentary One: Theory and Practices of Commentary in the Renaissance Jean Céard, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense Part Two: The Biblical Scholarship of Erasmus Two: Erasmus's Paraphrases: A 'New Kind of Commentary'? Jean-François Cottier, Université Paris-7 Diderot and Université de Montréal Editor's Addendum: Translating an Erasmian Definition of Paraphrase Judith Rice Henderson, University of Saskatchewan Three: The Actor in the Story: Horizons of Interpretation in Erasmus's Annotations on Luke Mark Vessey, University of British Columbia Four: The Function of Ambrosiaster in Erasmus's Annotations on the Epistle to the Galatians Riemer Faber, University of Waterloo, Ontario Five: Erasmus's Biblical Scholarship in the Toronto Project Robert D. Sider, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania and University of Saskatchewan Part Three: Religious Contexts of Printed Commentary Six: 'Virtual Classroom': Josse Bade's Commentaries for the Pious Reader Mark Crane, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario Seven: Embedded Commentary in Luther's Translation of Romans 3 Gordon A. Jensen, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon Eight: Commenting on Hatred of Commentaries: Les Censures des Théologiens Revised by Robert Estienne Hélène Cazes, University of Victoria, British Columbia Part Four: Developments in Humanist Philology Nine: Rabelais's Lost Stratagemata (ca. 1539): A Commentary on Frontinus? Claude La Charité, Université du Québec à Rimouski Ten: Commentaries on Tacitus by Justus Lipsius: Their Editing and Printing History Appendix I: A Survey of Lipsius's Editions of Tacitus (Text and/or Commentary) Appendix II: The Praenomen of Tacitus: Why Lipsius Preferred Caius to Publius Appendix III: The Annotations in Leiden UL, 762 C 4 as Source of the Curae secundae Appendix IV: Lipsius's Evolving Commentaries: Two Examples in the 1585 Edition, Curae secundae, and 1588 Edition Jeanine De Landtsheer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Bibliography List of Contributors Index.