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Authorship and Publicity Before Print

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Description for Authorship and Publicity Before Print paperback. Daniel Hobbins argues for a new understanding of Jean Gerson as a public intellectual and a man of letters and publicist, actively managing the diffusion of his works in a period of rapid expansion in written culture. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 3H; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.

Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Yet modern scholarship has struggled to define Gerson's place in history, even as it searches for a compelling narrative to tell the story of his era.

Daniel Hobbins argues for a new understanding of Gerson as a man of letters actively managing the publication of his works in a period of rapid expansion in written culture. More broadly, Hobbins casts Gerson as a mirror of the complex cultural and ... Read more

The picture of late medieval culture that emerges from this study offers neither a specter of decaying scholasticism nor a triumphalist narrative of budding humanism and reform. Instead, Hobbins describes a period of creative and dynamic growth, when new attitudes toward writing and debate demanded and eventually produced new technologies of the written word.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812222746
SKU
V9780812222746
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Ref
99-1

About Daniel Hobbins
Daniel Hobbins is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and is editor and translator of The Trial of Joan of Arc.

Reviews for Authorship and Publicity Before Print
"Authorship and Publicity Before Print is tightly argued, and based on prodigious research, elegantly and unobtrusively presented."—TLS "A nuanced and insightful analysis of Gerson that investigates the intersection of academia and pre-Gutenberg publishing. . . . Ultimately, Hobbins demonstrates that Gerson was able to harness the communication network of his day to disseminate his work to a wider manuscript market ... Read more

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