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Authorship and Publicity Before Print - Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning (Paperback)
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Authorship and Publicity Before Print - Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning (Paperback)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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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 intellectual shifts of the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. In contrast to earlier theologians, Gerson
took a more humanist approach to reading and to authorship. He
distributed his works, both Latin and French, to a more diverse
medieval public. And he succeeded in reaching a truly international
audience of readers within his lifetime. Through such efforts,
Gerson effectively embodies the aspirations of a generation of
writers and intellectuals. Removed from the narrow confines of late
scholastic theology and placed into a broad interdisciplinary
context, his writings open a window onto the fascinating landscape
of fifteenth-century Europe. 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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