Writers Seeking Readers
Authorial Publication from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
Edited by Samu Niskanen Edited by Valentina Rovere Edited by Andrea Antonio Verardi
This volume offers a wide-ranging examination of how texts were published in the age of the manuscript from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, revealing the social, institutional, and material practices through which authors sought readership and shaped literary transmission.
Texts are written to be read, and to ensure that a work will find as many readers as possible, action must be taken. In the age of the manuscript book, as now, authors recognized the necessity of publishing their work. Even so, the question as to how this was done in the Middle Ages, and to what effect, has only recently evolved into a sustained scholarly debate. Spanning more than eleven centuries, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, this volume offers the most comprehensive contribution to that discussion to date. Drawing on a wide array of sources, including letters, hagiography, historiography, commentaries, scholastic treatises, and humanist writings, the contributions investigate the diverse contexts in which medieval publication practices took shape. Topics addressed include the relationship between authorship and royal or ecclesiastical patronage, the social and professional dimensions of disseminating texts, the emergence of vernacular literary identities, and the evolving interplay between manuscript and print cultures. Together, these studies illuminate the complex mechanisms through which medieval authors sought readers and shaped their own reception.
- Edited by Niskanen, Samu
- Edited by Rovere, Valentina
- Edited by Verardi, Andrea Antonio
Other Titles in this Series
Litterarum dulces fructus
Studies in Early Medieval Latin Culture in Honour of Michael W. Herren for his 80th Birthday
Volume 85
Latin Anonymous Sermons from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (AD 300-800)
Classification, Transmission, Dating
Volume 86
Biblical and Manichaean Citations in Titus of Bostra’s Against the Manichaeans
An Annotated Inventory
Volume 78
Les sermons du manuscrit de Vienne (ONB Ms lat. 4147)
Interrogations sur leur unite, leur datation et leur origine avec une nouvelle edition critique et une traduction annotee des vingt-deux sermons Leroy
Volume 95
Eriugena and Creation
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Eriugenian Studies, held in honor of Edouard Jeauneau, Chicago, 9-12 November 2012
Volume 68
Hieronymus Romanus
Studies on Jerome and Rome on the Occasion of the 1600th Anniversary of his Death
Volume 87
Philosopher-monks, episcopal authority, and the care of the self
The Apophthegmata Patrum in fifth-century Palestine
Volume 80
Organising a Literary Corpus in the Middle Ages
The Corpus Nazianzenum and the Corpus Dionysiacum
Volume 96
L’ecclesiologie d’Anselme de Lucques (1063-1086) au service de Gregoire VII
Genese, contenu et impact de sa Collection canonique
Volume 69
The Manuscripts of Leo the Great’s Letters
The Transmission and Reception of Papal Documents in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Volume 83
Ordres et desordres dans les chaines exegetiques grecques
Order and Disorder in Greek Exegetical Catenae
Volume 100
Knowledge, Contemplation, and Lullism
Contributions to the Lullian Section at the SIEPM Congress, Freising, August 20-25, 2012
Volume 67
Les formes laiques de la philosophie
Raymond Lulle dans l'histoire de la philosophie medievale
Volume 81
A catalogue of works pertaining to the explanation of the creed in Carolingian manuscripts
Volume 63
Vox praedicatoris
Latin Patristic Sermons, Their Transmission, and Their Reception (4th-15th Centuries)
Volume 98
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