Authorship and publicity before print
Subtitle: Jean Gerson and the transformation of late medieval learning
By: Daniel Hobbins.
Series: The Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780812241556
Subjects: Gerson, Jean, -- 1363-1429; Gerson, Jean, -- 1363-1429 -- Books and reading; Authorship -- History -- To 1500; Books and reading -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gerson as bookman : prescribing "the common school of theological truth"; title: Justifying authorship : new diseases and new cures; title: A tour of medieval authorship : late works and poetry; title: Literary expression : logic, rhetoric, and scholarly vice; title: The schoolman as public intellectual : implications of the late medieval tract; title: Publishing before print (1) : a series of publishing moments; title: Publishing before print (2) : from coterie readership to massive market.