Author, reader, book medieval authorship in theory and practice /
Author, reader, book medieval authorship in theory and practice /
edited by Stephen Partridge and Erik Kwakkel.
- Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012).
- 1 online resource (vi, 305 pages) : illustrations, digital file.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Author, Reader, Book, and Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice / 1 The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture / 2 Wit, Laughter, and Authority in Walter Map's De nugis curialium (Courtiers' Trifles) / 3 Late Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts / 4 The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer's Manciple's Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context / 5 'The Makere of this Boke': Chaucer's Retraction and the Author as Scribe and Compiler / 6 Reading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her Readers / 7 Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing after the Constitutions / 8 Master Henryson and Father Aesop / 9 Erasmus's Lucubrationes : Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre / Stephen Partridge -- Alastair Minnis -- Sebastian Coxon -- Erik Kwakkel -- Anita Obermeier -- Stephen Partridge -- Deborah McGrady -- Kirsty Campbell -- Iain Macleod Higgins -- Mark Vessey.
Incorporating several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship, the essays examine interrelated questions raised by the relationship between an author and a reader, the relationships between authors and their antecedents, and the ways in which authorship interacts with the physical presentation of texts in books.
9781442665743
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Authorship--History--To 1500.
Authors and readers--History--To 1500.
Electronic Books.
PN671 / .A984 2012
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Author, Reader, Book, and Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice / 1 The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture / 2 Wit, Laughter, and Authority in Walter Map's De nugis curialium (Courtiers' Trifles) / 3 Late Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts / 4 The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer's Manciple's Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context / 5 'The Makere of this Boke': Chaucer's Retraction and the Author as Scribe and Compiler / 6 Reading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her Readers / 7 Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing after the Constitutions / 8 Master Henryson and Father Aesop / 9 Erasmus's Lucubrationes : Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre / Stephen Partridge -- Alastair Minnis -- Sebastian Coxon -- Erik Kwakkel -- Anita Obermeier -- Stephen Partridge -- Deborah McGrady -- Kirsty Campbell -- Iain Macleod Higgins -- Mark Vessey.
Incorporating several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship, the essays examine interrelated questions raised by the relationship between an author and a reader, the relationships between authors and their antecedents, and the ways in which authorship interacts with the physical presentation of texts in books.
9781442665743
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Authorship--History--To 1500.
Authors and readers--History--To 1500.
Electronic Books.
PN671 / .A984 2012