Authenticity in medieval and early modern literature / edited by Rebecca Menmuir.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menmuir, Rebecca, editor.

Series:

Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; 89.

Studies in medieval and early modern culture, 2699-5204 ; 89

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Literature, Modern--15th and 16th centuries--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter ; Kalamazoo : MIP, Medieval Institute Publications, 2025.

Summary:

This volume examines a range of medieval and early modern approaches to authenticity in literature, asking how authenticity was defined, privileged, constructed, and contested in the periods covered. Essays trace the shifting status of authenticity across four literary categories which most test the concept of premodern authenticity: forgeries, histories, translations, and continuations. Contributions engage with works across Latin, Greek, English, French, and Irish, and set authenticity in conversation with medieval and modern perspectives on authority, truth, and morality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Part I: Definitions and Distinctions

Chapter 1 Introduction: Angles of Authenticity / Rebecca Menmuir

Chapter 2 Homo authenticus / Alastair Minnis

Part II: Forging Authenticity

Chapter 3 Paradoxes of Authenticity in the Pseudo- Ovidian De vetula / Rebecca Menmuir

Chapter 4 Forging Catiline: Portraits of the Arch- Conspirator in Medieval and Early Modern Pseudepigrapha / Giuseppe La Bua

Part III: Histories

Chapter 5 Evidence, Truth, and Authenticity in the Vita Haroldi / Jacqueline M. Burek

Chapter 6 "Enucleator venio, non impugnator": The Uneven Authority of Pseudohistories in the Works of Gerald of Wales / Jenyth H. Evans

Chapter 7 Relics of Something True: Constructing the Authentic in Milton's History of Britain / Callum Bowler

Part IV: Translations

Chapter 8 Authenticity through Collaborative (Re)translation: The Ovide moralisé and Its Successors / Molly Bronstein

Chapter 9 An Exemplary Fake: The Letters of Pseudo- Phalaris in the Italian Quattrocento / Susanna Gambino Longo

Part V: Continuations and Canon-Formation

Chapter 10 Authenticity, Apocrypha, and the Early Modern Chaucer Canon / Megan L. Cook

Chapter 11 The Varieties of Authenticity in Renaissance Classical Supplements / Leah Whittington

Contributor Information

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1501518291

OCLC:

1525275472