Modes of Authorship in the Middle Ages

by Rankovic, Slavica; Budal, Ingvil Brugger (CON); Conti, Aidan (CON); Melve, Leidulf (CON); Mundal, Else (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780888448224
• ISBN10: 0888448228
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-01
• Publisher: Pontifical Inst of Medieval studies

Summary

The essays in this volume, edited by Slavica Rankovi? with Ingvil Brügger Budal, Aidan Conti, Leidulf Melve, and Else Mundal, are geared towards reopening the debate concerning who should be credited with creativity -- the talented individual, tradition/society, or the creative process itself. The products of medieval culture, with their own dynamics of networked authorship and narratives that often precede their tellers, provide a uniquely rich resource for anyone attempting to conceptualise authorship today.

Author Biography

Maiestas Domini on the altar frontal from Ulvik, c. 1260, and now in the University Museum of Bergen; the Reynistaarbk in Copenhagen, Den Arnamagnanske Samling, AM 764 4to, fols. 4v-5r (photographs used with permission).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Models of Authorship, Authoring of Models	p. 15
Authors, Authorship, and Work: A Brief Theoretical Survey	p. 17
"I am large, I contain multitudes": The Medieval Author in Memetic Terms	p. 30
The Talent of the Distributed Author	p. 52
Medieval Authorship: Theories and Practices	p. 77
The Apophatic First-Person Speaker in Eckhart's Sermons	p. 79
Communis quidam bonae doctrinae thesaurus: Authorship and Inspiration in Late Medieval Commentaries in Central Europe on the Book of Psalms	p. 97
Obedient Creativity and Idiosyncratic Copying: Tradition and Individuality in the Works of William of Malmesbury and John of Salisbury	p. 113
"… to distil the excellence of their genius": Conceptions of Authorship in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Polemical Literature	p. 133
Irony and the Author: The Case of the Dialogues of Lawrence of Durham	p. 151
Corrector Ultimus: Aegidius of Paris and Peter Riga's Aurora	p. 172
In a Quest for the Author in the Universe of Orlando Furioso	p. 190
Modes of Authorship in Old Norse Literature	p. 209
Modes of Authorship and Types of Text in Old Norse Culture	p. 211
Poet, Singer of Tales, Storyteller, and Author	p. 227
Hofundr-Skáld: Author, Compiler, and Scribe in Old Norse Literature	p. 236
The Eddie Author: On Distributed Creativity in The Lay of Prymr and Skírnir's Journey	p. 251
Scribes, Redactors, Translators, and Compilers as Authors	p. 265
Scribes as Authors, Transmission as Composition: Towards a Science of Copying	p. 267
Scriptorial Scruples: The Writing and Rewriting of a Hagiographical Narrative	p. 289
Visible Stratification in a Medieval Text: Traces of Multiple Redactors in a Text Extant in a Single Manuscript	p. 309
The Resourceful Scribe: Some Aspects of the Development of Reynistaðarbók (AM 764 4to)	p. 325
Authors and Anonymity, Texts and Their Contexts: The Case of Eggertsbók	p. 343
Medieval Authorship: Arts and Material Culture	p. 365
Image-Making Between Conventionality and Innovation: The Medieval Artist and the Conditions of Authorship	p. 367
Monumental Messages and the Voice of Individuality and Tradition: The Case of Scandinavian Rune Stones	p. 389
Index	p. 414
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