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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Partridge is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. Erik Kwakkel is a lecturer in the Institute for Cultural Disciplines at Leiden University. Klappentext Incorporating several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship! the essays in Author! Reader! Book examine interrelated questions raised by the relationship between an author and a reader! the relationships between authors and their antecedents! and the ways in which authorship interacts with the physical presentation of texts in books. Zusammenfassung Incorporating several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship! the essays examine interrelated questions raised by the relationship between an author and a reader! the relationships between authors and their antecedents! and the ways in which authorship interacts with the physical presentation of texts in books. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Author! Reader! Book and Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice by Stephen Partridge * The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture by Alastair Minnis (Yale University) * Wit! laughter and authority in Walter Map's De nugis curialium (Courtiers' trifles) by Sebastian Coxon (University College London) * Late-Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts by Erik Kwakkel * The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer's Manciple's Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context by Anita Obermeier (University of New Mexico) *'The Makere of this Boke': Chaucer's 'Retraction' and the Author as Scribe and Compiler by Stephen Partridge * Reading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her Readers by Deborah McGrady (University of Virginia) * Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing After the Constitutions by Kirsty Campbell (Bishop's University) * Master Henryson and Father Aesop by Ian Higgins (University of Victoria) * Erasmus' Lucubrationes: Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre by Mark Vessey (University of British Columbia) Bibliography Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations ...
