Medieval Theory of Authorship : : Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages / / Alastair Minnis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
• VerfasserIn: Minnis, Alastair,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Second Edition
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 2 illus.

It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In Medieval Theory of Authorship, now...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface to the Reissued Second Edition
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Notes on Style
• Introduction: The Significance or the Medieval Theory of Authorship
• 1 Academic Prologues to 'Auctores'
• 2 Prologues to Scriptural 'Auctores'
• 3 Authorial Roles in the 'Literal Sense'
• 4 Literary Forms in the 'Literal Sense'
• 5 Literary Theory and Literary Practice
• Epilogue: The Familiar Authors
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index of Latin Terms
• General Index