Author, Reader, Book

Published by University of Toronto Press 2012

Author, Reader, Book

Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice

Edited by: Stephen Partridge and Erik Kwakkel

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442665743

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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.

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PartridgeStephen:

Stephen Partridge is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.

KwakkelErik:

Erik Kwakkel is a lecturer in the Institute for Cultural Disciplines at Leiden University.

Reviews

Cristian Bratu:
‘This is an excellent volume… A very useful contribution to the growing (and much needed) debate on medieval authorship.’

Sarah Noonan:
‘The wide-ranging scope of this collection is one of the greatest attributes… A valuable interdisciplinary contribution to the study of authorship and the book during the Middle Ages that would be of interest to both literary scholars and book historians.’

Anne Mctaggart:
‘A rich and stimulating collection of essays whose workshop roots are evident in helpful cross-references as well as subtler forms of response and exchange among the individual contributors.’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Author, Reader, Book, and Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice Stephen Partridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
1. The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture Alastair Minnis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
2. Wit, Laughter, and Authority in Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Courtiers’ Trifles) Sebastian Coxon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3. Late Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts Erik Kwakkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
4. The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context Anita Obermeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
5. ‘The Makere of this Boke’: Chaucer’s Retraction and the Author as Scribe and Compiler Stephen Partridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
6. Reading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her Readers Deborah McGrady Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
7. Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing after the Constitutions Kirsty Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
8. Master Henryson and Father Aesop Iain Macleod Higgins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
9. Erasmus’s Lucubrationes: Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre Mark Vessey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index of Manuscripts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
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