The aim of the book is to present a literary genre – the commentary as a main form of scientific literature in Antiquity and Middle Ages. The collectanea of studies of specialists in Asian and European literatures and historians of philosophy show the multicultural viewpoint of this problem.

Mieczys?aw Mejor, a medievalist and neo-latinist, is Professor in the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Head of the Chair of Medieval and Neolatin Literature, Institute of Classical Philology and Culture Studies, Cardinal Stefan Wyszy?ski University in Warsaw (Poland). Katarzyna Ja?d?ewska, a Hellenist, is employed at the Chair of Greek Language and Literature in the Institute of Classical Philology and Culture Studies, Cardinal Stefan Wyszy?ski University in Warsaw (Poland). Anna Zajchowska, a medievalist, is employed at the Chair of Medieval and Neolatin Literature, Institute of Classical Philology and Culture Studies, Cardinal Stefan Wyszy?ski University in Warsaw (Poland).

Contents: Dorota Muszytowska: Qumran Pesharim as an Example of an Accommodative Commentary – Marek Mejor: Buddhist Tradition in Quest of the Authenticity and the True Meaning of the «Word of the Buddha» – Katarzyna Pachniak: The Muslim Tradition of Commentary: Ibn Rushd’s (Averroes’s) Commentaries on the Works of Aristotle – Adam Bednarczyk: Prose Criticism in the Bush Warbler’s Hideout: as the Earliest Literary Critical Commentary on Pawe? Dziadul: Andrew of Caesarea’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation and Its Role in Medieval Orthodox Slavonic Literature – Dominika Budzanowska: Hieronymus’ Revision of Victorinus’ Commentary and Augustine’s Summary of Tyconius’ – Angelika Modli?ska-Piekarz: Byzantine Theory of Paraphrase in Rhetorical Treatises and Commentaries and the Original Version of Theon’s – Krzysztof Morta: Ancient Commenting Literature and the of Isidore of Seville – Filip Doroszewski: Commenting with Hexameter. The Imagery of Light and Darkness in Nonnus’ Poetic Exegesis of John 3:1-21 – Adam Pozna?ski: Some Remarks on the of Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore – Izabella Andrzejuk : Aristotélisme ou thomisme ? La dispute sur le caractère du discours de l’éthique dans le de saint Thomas à – Artur Andrzejuk : Le commentaire de Thomas d’Aquin à - odyssée de textes et de conceptions à travers les cultures, les époques et les écoles philosophiques – Dorota Gacka: Features of an in Three Commentaries from Around the End of the Middle Ages. Some Observations on of John of D?brówka and on Commentaries on and (Lyon 1514) – Krzysztof Bracha: Commentaries on the in the Late Middle Ages: Between Method and Catechesis. Poland in the European Context. The State of Research and Perspectives – Agnieszka Maci?g: Fifteenth-Century Latin Glosses on the Apostolic Letters.