Authorship and publicity before print : Jean Gerson and the transformation of late medieval learning / Daniel Hobbins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobbins, Daniel, 1966-

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania. Press.

Series:

Middle Ages series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429--Books and reading.

Gerson, Jean.

Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.

Books and reading--Europe--History--To 1500.

Books and reading.

Authorship--History--To 1500.

Authorship.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 335 pages :) : illustrations, maps

Other Title:

Penn Press e-books.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Modern scholarship has struggled to define Jean Gerson's place in history despite the fact that he was regarded by his contemporaraies as one of the most powerful theologians of the late 14th and early 15th centuries. Daniel Hobbins however argues that Gerson was a mirror of the complex cultural and intellectual shifts of his age.

Contents:

Gerson as bookman : prescribing "the common school of theological truth"

Justifying authorship : new diseases and new cures

A tour of medieval authorship : late works and poetry

Literary expression : logic, rhetoric, and scholarly vice

The schoolman as public intellectual : implications of the late medieval tract

Publishing before print (1) : a series of publishing moments

Publishing before print (2) : from coterie readership to massive market.

Notes:

OldControl:muse9780812202298.

"Multi-User"

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hobbins, Daniel, 1966- Authorship and publicity before print.

ISBN:

9780812202298

0812202295

OCLC:

794702347

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.