COSIMA CLARA GILLHAMMER is a Career Development Fellow in Medieval English at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford AUDREY SOUTHGATE is currently an Academic Visitor in Oxford's English faculty, teaching Old and Middle English and researching the pedagogical reception history of the Psalms. AUDREY SOUTHGATE is currently an Academic Visitor in Oxford's English faculty, teaching Old and Middle English and researching the pedagogical reception history of the Psalms. COSIMA CLARA GILLHAMMER is a Career Development Fellow in Medieval English at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

• INTRODUCTIONWhy Commentary? Lesley Smith PART I: GENRES AND FORMS 1 Iohannes Apostolus and Anselm of Laon: Foundations of the Glossa Ordinaria and Twelfth-Century Biblical Commentary PracticesSimon Whedbee 2 Parables, Beatitudes, and History: Early Medieval Exegesis of Matthew 13 in an Augustinian ModeDavid J. Elliott 3 The Children from Stones: Michael Suchenschatz on Metaphors and Magic from the GospelsEdit Anna Lukács4 Translation as Commentary? Literal and Expository Modes in the Wycliffite BibleElizabeth Solopova PART II: IDENTITIES 5 Conversing with the Sage King Solomon: Hellenistic Jewish Sages' Commentary on Wisdom of Solomon and SirachJiani Sun 6 The Association of Punic and Hebrew in North African Exegesis and Ecclesial IdentityJoshua Caminiti 7 Biblical Commentary and Royal Patronage in Carolingian EuropeZachary Guiliano 8 Anselm of Canterbury as Biblical Commentator?Rachel Cresswell PART III: TRANSFORMATIONS 9 'This law did not apply to her': Marian Lyric as Commentary on EstherAnna Wilmore 10 The Chess of Love, Text and Gloss: From Évrart de Conty to John LydgateAlastair Minnis 11 Reading Eleanor Hull's Commentary on the Penitential Psalms through St Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Human NatureEduardo de Oliveira Correia 12 Authority in the Margins: The Apparatus of Biblical Commentary in a Fifteenth-Century Middle English Devotional CompilationAlexandra Barnes 13 Editing Middle English Biblical Glosses in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 554Michael P. Kuczynski AFTERWORDWilliam Marx Index of Manuscripts

COSIMA CLARA GILLHAMMER is a Career Development Fellow in Medieval English at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford AUDREY SOUTHGATE is currently an Academic Visitor in Oxford's English faculty, teaching Old and Middle English and researching the pedagogical reception history of the Psalms. AUDREY SOUTHGATE is currently an Academic Visitor in Oxford's English faculty, teaching Old and Middle English and researching the pedagogical reception history of the Psalms. COSIMA CLARA GILLHAMMER is a Career Development Fellow in Medieval English at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

• INTRODUCTIONWhy Commentary? Lesley Smith PART I: GENRES AND FORMS 1 Iohannes Apostolus and Anselm of Laon: Foundations of the Glossa Ordinaria and Twelfth-Century Biblical Commentary PracticesSimon Whedbee 2 Parables, Beatitudes, and History: Early Medieval Exegesis of Matthew 13 in an Augustinian ModeDavid J. Elliott 3 The Children from Stones: Michael Suchenschatz on Metaphors and Magic from the GospelsEdit Anna Lukács4 Translation as Commentary? Literal and Expository Modes in the Wycliffite BibleElizabeth Solopova PART II: IDENTITIES 5 Conversing with the Sage King Solomon: Hellenistic Jewish Sages' Commentary on Wisdom of Solomon and SirachJiani Sun 6 The Association of Punic and Hebrew in North African Exegesis and Ecclesial IdentityJoshua Caminiti 7 Biblical Commentary and Royal Patronage in Carolingian EuropeZachary Guiliano 8 Anselm of Canterbury as Biblical Commentator?Rachel Cresswell PART III: TRANSFORMATIONS 9 'This law did not apply to her': Marian Lyric as Commentary on EstherAnna Wilmore 10 The Chess of Love, Text and Gloss: From Évrart de Conty to John LydgateAlastair Minnis 11 Reading Eleanor Hull's Commentary on the Penitential Psalms through St Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Human NatureEduardo de Oliveira Correia 12 Authority in the Margins: The Apparatus of Biblical Commentary in a Fifteenth-Century Middle English Devotional CompilationAlexandra Barnes 13 Editing Middle English Biblical Glosses in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 554Michael P. Kuczynski AFTERWORDWilliam Marx Index of Manuscripts

COSIMA CLARA GILLHAMMER is a Career Development Fellow in Medieval English at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford AUDREY SOUTHGATE is currently an Academic Visitor in Oxford's English faculty, teaching Old and Middle English and researching the pedagogical reception history of the Psalms. AUDREY SOUTHGATE is currently an Academic Visitor in Oxford's English faculty, teaching Old and Middle English and researching the pedagogical reception history of the Psalms. COSIMA CLARA GILLHAMMER is a Career Development Fellow in Medieval English at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

• INTRODUCTIONWhy Commentary? Lesley Smith PART I: GENRES AND FORMS 1 Iohannes Apostolus and Anselm of Laon: Foundations of the Glossa Ordinaria and Twelfth-Century Biblical Commentary PracticesSimon Whedbee 2 Parables, Beatitudes, and History: Early Medieval Exegesis of Matthew 13 in an Augustinian ModeDavid J. Elliott 3 The Children from Stones: Michael Suchenschatz on Metaphors and Magic from the GospelsEdit Anna Lukács4 Translation as Commentary? Literal and Expository Modes in the Wycliffite BibleElizabeth Solopova PART II: IDENTITIES 5 Conversing with the Sage King Solomon: Hellenistic Jewish Sages' Commentary on Wisdom of Solomon and SirachJiani Sun 6 The Association of Punic and Hebrew in North African Exegesis and Ecclesial IdentityJoshua Caminiti 7 Biblical Commentary and Royal Patronage in Carolingian EuropeZachary Guiliano 8 Anselm of Canterbury as Biblical Commentator?Rachel Cresswell PART III: TRANSFORMATIONS 9 'This law did not apply to her': Marian Lyric as Commentary on EstherAnna Wilmore 10 The Chess of Love, Text and Gloss: From Évrart de Conty to John LydgateAlastair Minnis 11 Reading Eleanor Hull's Commentary on the Penitential Psalms through St Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Human NatureEduardo de Oliveira Correia 12 Authority in the Margins: The Apparatus of Biblical Commentary in a Fifteenth-Century Middle English Devotional CompilationAlexandra Barnes 13 Editing Middle English Biblical Glosses in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 554Michael P. Kuczynski AFTERWORDWilliam Marx Index of Manuscripts