Author, Reader, Book : Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice / Stephen Partridge, Erik Kwakkel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kwakkel, Erik, editor.

Partridge, Stephen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Authorship--History--To 1500.

Authorship.

Authors and readers--History--To 1500.

Authors and readers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The broad chronological range within this volume reveals the persistence of literary concerns that remain consistent through different periods, languages, and cultural contexts. Theoretical reflections, case studies from a wide variety of languages, examinations of devotional literature from figures such as Bishop Reginald Pecock, and analyses of works that are more secular in focus, including some by Chaucer and Christine de Pizan, come together in this volume to transcend linguistic and disciplinary boundaries."--Pub. desc.

Contents:

The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture / Alastair Minnis

Wit, laughter and authority in Walter Map's De nugis curialium (Courtiers' trifles) / Sebastian Coxon

Late-Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts / Erik Kwakkel

The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer's Manciple's Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context / Anita Obermeier

'The Makere of this Boke': Chaucer's 'Retraction' and the Author as Scribe and Compiler / Stephen Partridge

Reading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her Readers / Deborah McGrady

Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing After the Constitutions / Kirsty Campbell

Master Henryson and Father Aesop / Ian Higgins

Erasmus' Lucubrationes: Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre / Mark Vessey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-6701-X

1-4426-6574-2

OCLC:

806255263