We were delighted to have you with us, Rebecca, thank you for your fascinating paper!

The end of Minnis' talk brings our 🌍Global Glossing: Transnational Commentary in the Later Middle Ages🌍 conference to a close!

Thank you to the team at St Andrews, all of our fantastic speakers, and our audience both online and in person.

...'Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c.1100-c.1375: The Commentary Tradition'.

Our final event of the day is the SSMLL Annual Lecture presented by Alastair Minnis (Yale). Minnis' lecture, ‘(Re)anthologizing Literary Theory from Medieval Commentary Tradition: New Parameters', is offering insight into the additions being made to the landmark anthology...

During the AGM, President Alastair Minnis congratulated the winner of the 2025 Medium Aevum Essay Prize, Chenyun Zhu (Nanjing University) for their essay 'The Curse and the Seal: Fertility Myth in the Nine Herbs Charm'. We are delighted to have Chenyun join us at the conference.

Lucy Turton, one of SSMLL's graduate observers and a current doctoral student at St Andrews now fields questions, comments and discussion with the audience and our Session III speakers.

Our next speaker for Panel III is Ian Johnson (St Andrews) with his paper ‘The Prose Self-Commentary in John Walton’s Boethius’. Johnson argues that Walton draws on Chaucer's Boece and relies on Trevet's Latin commentary, but also refracts his own work through his 'self-commentary'.

Session III has now begun with Raphaela Rohrhofer's (St Andrews) paper ‘Julian of Norwich’s Kenotic Auto-Commentary’. Rohrhofer's explains how contemplative language is employed and functions differently from ordinary language, and she focusses closely on Julian's use of 'drede'.

Session II finishes with a Q&A and discussion chaired by current St Andrews doctoral student Phoebe Macindoe. We'll be back after a lunch break for the 2:00pm start of Session III.

The second paper of Session II is (Lincoln College, Oxford) 'Convincing via Commentary: The Glosses to the Pseudo-Ovidian De Vetula'. Menmuir's paper focuses on a metrical discussion of Ovidian authorship that is sometimes circulated with the de Vetula.

We're now underway with Session II. First is Lucie Doležalová (Charles University, Prague) and her paper ‘Nescio corrigere: Scribes' Comments in Late Medieval Bohemia’. Doležalová explains her focus on scribal comments at the end of texts, particularly those which comment on the text and scribe.

The Q&A for Session I is chaired by current St Andrews doctoral student Nilanjana Goswami, with lively cross-paper questioning and discussion.

Our second paper of Session I is Paola Nasti's (Northwestern, Illinois) paper, ‘Dante the exegete’. Nasti begins by noting the dominance of Dante to studies of commentary on classical poetry, and her desire to shift the focus to Dante's hermeneutics and exegesis of scripture.

We move to the first paper of Session I, Andrew Kraebel's (Trinity University, Texas) ‘Theories of Voice in Medieval Commentary’. Kraebel explains his focus on the interpretive introductions to the commentaries of Virgil and other classical poets produced in northern France in the C12th.