Authorship and Publicity Before Print : : Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning /

Authorship and Publicity Before Print : : Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning / / Daniel Hobbins.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
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Hobbins, Daniel,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2009
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 21 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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