The construction of textual authority in German literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods / / edited by James F. Poag and Claire Baldwin.

• TeilnehmendeR: Baldwin, Claire,; Poag, James F.,
• Place / Publishing House: [Chapel Hill, North Carolina] : : [University of North Carolina Press],, [2021]; ©[2021]
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English; German
• Series: UNC studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; number 123
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) :; digital file.
• Notes: Reprint. Originally published in 2001; with new foreword (2020)

"Interest in the intersections of various kinds of discourse provides the basis for a closer look at diverse textual strategies of cultural legitimation. This collection presents an introductory essay and eleven studies (written in English and German) that address claims to authority associated with differing kinds of texts from such varied perspectives as political performance, popular culture, history of science, interrelations between verbal texts and other arts, and artistic professionalism. Read together, these studies illuminate historical contingencies and reveal important changes in the 'technologies of authority' from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries."--Page 4 of cover

Table of Contents

Die Autorität des Musters: mittelalterliche Literatur als Variationskunst und die Folgen Für ihre Ästhetik / Thomas Cramer -- Wege der Befreiung von Autorität: von der fingierten Quelle zur göttlichen Inspiration / Walter Haug -- Die Stimme und die Schrift: Autoritätskonstitution im Medienwechsel von der Mündlichkeit zur Schriftlichkeit / Horst Wenzel -- The text as a symbol of decadence / C. Stephen Jaeger -- Von der Rede zur Schrift: Konstituierung von Autorität in Predigt und Predigtüberlieferung / Rüdiger Schnell -- The city as text: the entry of Charles V into Nuremberg (1541) / Arthur Groos -- The reformation of the Bible and an artist: sacred philology and Albrecht Dürer / David Price -- Invoking the powers that be: types of authority and the production of the Theatrum de veneficis (1586) / Gerhild Scholz Williams -- Citational science: textuality and the authority of the "Scientific Fact" in early modern central Europe (Lohenstein's Cleopatra, 1680) / Jane O. Newman -- Authority, prestige, and value: professionalization in the musicians' novels of Wolfgang Caspar Printz and Johann Kuhnau / Lynne Tatlock -- Authority and interpretation in G.C. Lichtenberg's commentaries on William Hogarth / Claire Baldwin