On Good Authority
Tradition, Compilation and the Construction of Authority in Literature from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Edited by Reinhart Ceulemans Edited by Pieter De Leemans
This book brings together views from various disciplines on the concept of authority in Greek and Latin literature from Antiquity to the Renaissance. More specifically it deals with the questions how texts attempt to gain authority, and if and how they use-or abuse-earlier writings in the construction of their own authority. Moreover, this volume examines to what extent a text’s authoritative claims influence its transmission and reception and how these claims themselves are subject to evolution over time. In this context, special attention is devoted to compilation literature (such as anthologies and commonplace books), which is characterized by extensive use of existing source material and thus specifically poses the problem of the role played by compilers in transmitting and establishing authority. The volume contains 15 articles in which the contributors discuss various cases and texts that illustrate the different factors at stake in dealing with and constructing authority.
- Edited by Reinhart Ceulemans
- Edited by Pieter De Leemans
Other Titles in this Series
Shaping Authority
How did a person become an authority in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?
Volume 4
Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425-1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 1
Volume 17
Innovationes Lovanienses: Arts, Law and Theology at the University of Louvain (1425–1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 2
Volume 18
Networking through Biography
Constructing Intellectual Junctions in Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Arabo-Islamic World
Volume 19
Towards the Authority of Vesalius
Studies on Medicine and the Human Body from Antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond
Volume 6
Outsiders and Forerunners
Modern Reason and Historiographical Births of Medieval Philosophy
Volume 5
Le pere du siecle
The Early Modern Reception of Jean Gerson (1363-1429): Theological Authority between Middle Ages and Early Modern Era
Volume 14
Similar Books
Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance
Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic
Volume 8
Althochdeutsche Stabreimdichtungen
Hildebrandslied, Muspilli und kleinere Denkmaler. Von Grund auf neu ediert, mit Erschliessungshilfen versehen, ubersetzt und eingeleitet von Frank Schafer
Carl Hanser Verlag as an intermediary of Polish literature in West Germany between 1945 and 1990
Volume 2
Emotion and Calculation
Marriage Markets and Match Making from Early Modernity to the Present
Volume 14
L’amore, le armi, le stelle
Basinio da Parma and the Humanists at Sigismondo Malatesta's Court
Volume 6
Medieval Women in Letters
Letters by Women, to Women, and about Women in Medieval Literatures
Volume 66
