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Writers Seeking Readers: Authorial Publication from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

Writers Seeking Readers: Authorial Publication from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

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Series: Instrumenta Patristica Et Mediaevalia, Book 101

Business GeneralMedieval & Renaissance HistoryBusiness of Writing

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ISBN10: 2503618901
ISBN13: 9782503618906
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Pages: 530
Language: Latin
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.

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