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Authorship and Publicity Before Print : Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning /
Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Yet modern scholarship has struggled to define Gerson's place in history, even as...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Gerson as Bookman: Prescribing ''the Common School of Theological Truth''
- 2. Justifying Authorship: New Diseases and New Cures
- 3. A Tour of Medieval Authorship: Late Works and Poetry
- 4. Literary Expression: Logic, Rhetoric, and Scholarly Vice
- 5. The Schoolman as Public Intellectual: Implications of the Late Medieval Tract
- 6. Publishing Before Print (1): A Series of Publishing Moments
- 7. Publishing Before Print (2): From Coterie Readership to Massive Market
- Conclusion
- List of Abbreviations
- Appendix: Gerson Manuscripts in Carthusian and Celestine Monasteries
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Works by Gerson
- General Index
- Acknowledgments