postglossator

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ glossator.

Noun

postglossator (plural postglossators)

1. (historical, law) A legal scholar of the late Middle Ages, in the period after the glossators; a commentator.
   • 1992, Ian Maclean, Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of Law, →ISBN, page 94:

     It would seem uncontroversial in an age of humanist philology to claim that the Corpus Juris Civilis in its pristine form and with its historical sense restored to it would be more authoritative than first the gloss, second the postglossators’ additions to the gloss, and finally the elucubrations of subsequent generations of jurists on the postglossators’ additions.

Translations

medieval legal scholar

• French: postglossateur m