Writers Seeking Readers
Authorial Publication from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
Edited by Samu Niskanen Edited by Valentina Rovere Edited by Andrea Antonio Verardi
Hardback (Forthcoming)
(August 2026)
ISBN: 9782503618906
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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, it was a well understood that authors needed to publish. 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. Embracing a period of some eleven hundred years, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, this volume brings light to that discussion in unprecedented scope. The corpus of evidence referred to comprises letters, hagiography, histories, commentaries, scholastic treatises, and humanistic discourses. The contexts under scrutiny include the connexions between publishing and royal and ecclesiastical courts, social and careerist aspects of publication, nascent vernacular authorship, and the relationship between manuscript and print, among many others.
- Edited by Samu Niskanen
- Edited by Valentina Rovere
- Edited by Andrea Antonio Verardi
Other Titles in this Series
A Late Antique Harrowing of Hell and Its Medieval Reception
Eusebius of Alexandria's Sermons 15 and 17 (CPG 5524; 5526) and their Latin Rewritings
Volume 99
Knowledge, Contemplation, and Lullism
Contributions to the Lullian Section at the SIEPM Congress, Freising, August 20-25, 2012
Volume 67
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
Hieronymus Romanus
Studies on Jerome and Rome on the Occasion of the 1600th Anniversary of his Death
Volume 87
Tractatio Scripturarum. Philological, Exegetical, Rhetorical, and Theological Studies on Augustine’s Sermons
Ministerium Sermonis II
Volume 65
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
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
Les formes laiques de la philosophie
Raymond Lulle dans l'histoire de la philosophie medievale
Volume 81
Vox praedicatoris
Latin Patristic Sermons, Their Transmission, and Their Reception (4th-15th Centuries)
Volume 98
A catalogue of works pertaining to the explanation of the creed in Carolingian manuscripts
Volume 63
Felici curiositate. Studies in Latin Literature and Textual Criticism from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
In Honour of Rita Beyers
Volume 72
Philologie, hermeneutique et histoire des textes entre Orient et Occident
Melanges en hommage a Sever J. Voicu
Volume 73