Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning

348 Pages·2009·4.682 MB·English

by  Daniel Hobbins

Authorship and Publicity Before Print
THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES
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Authorship and Publicity
Before Print
Jean Gerson and the Transformation of
Late Medieval Learning
D ANIEL HOBBINS
UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress
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Contents
ListofIllustrationsandMaps ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1
1. GersonasBookman:Prescribing‘‘theCommonSchoolof
TheologicalTruth’’ 18
2. JustifyingAuthorship:NewDiseasesandNewCures 51
3. ATourofMedievalAuthorship:LateWorksandPoetry 72
4. LiteraryExpression:Logic,Rhetoric,andScholarlyVice 102
5. TheSchoolmanasPublicIntellectual:ImplicationsoftheLate
MedievalTract 128
6. PublishingBeforePrint(1):ASeriesofPublishingMoments 152
7. PublishingBeforePrint(2):FromCoterieReadershiptoMassive
Market 183
Conclusion 217
ListofAbbreviations 219
Appendix:GersonManuscriptsinCarthusianandCelestine
Monasteries 221
Notes 227
SelectedBibliography 293
viii Contents
IndexofManuscripts 313
IndexofWorksbyGerson 317
GeneralIndex 321
Acknowledgments 333
Illustrations and Maps
Illustrations
1. PulpitoftheFiveDoctors,Amanduskirche,BadUrach.Author
photographs. 6
2. ManuscriptproductioninEurope,1250–1530. 9
3. Gersonwritinginhisstudy.Paris,Bibliothe`quenationalede
France,Ms.nouv.acq.lat.3024,f.2v.Usedbypermission. 24
4. GrandSealoftheUniversityofToulouse.Copyright(cid:2)Archivio
SegretoVaticano,A.A.,Arm.I-XVIII2201sigillorecto. 34
5. ‘‘LeCouventdesCe´lestinsauXVesie`cle,’’asreconstructedbyM.R.
LenailforJ.-B.Martin,Histoiredese´glisesetchapellesdeLyon(Lyon,
1908). 75
6. WoodcutofGersonaspilgrim,fromthe1488Strasbourgeditionof
hisworks,editedbyGeilervonKaysersberg. 77
7. ‘‘Figurascacordimusicalissimuletmilitaristamquamchorus
castrorum’’(FigureofaChessboardatOnceMusicalandMilitary,
LikeaChorusofEncampedSoldiers).Paris,Bibliothe`quenationale
deFrance,Ms.lat.17487,f.226r.Usedbypermission. 85
8. TwomastersdisputingthecorrectinterpretationofAristotle.
Stockholm,KungligaBiblioteket,DepartmentofManuscripts,Ms.
Va.3,f.205v.Usedbypermission. 132
9. Gersonpreaching.Valenciennes,Bibliothe`queMunicipale,Ms.
230,f.1r.Usedbypermission. 159
10. ‘‘Arbordeoriginejurisetlegum’’(TreeontheOriginofLawand
Statutes)inmanuscriptandprint.Paris,Bibliothe`quenationalede
France,Ms.lat.17489,f.20v;JoannisGersoniiOperaomnia,ed.L.E.
DuPin(Antwerp,1706),2.157–58.Usedbypermission. 164
11. TheConsiderationessummariaeperquatuorpartessuperquotidiano
peregrinitestamento(SummaryConsiderationsinFourPartsonthe
DailyTestamentofaPilgrim)inmanuscriptandprint.Paris,
Bibliothe`quenationaledeFrance,Ms.lat.18205,f.143v;Johannes
Gerson,Opera,3vols.(Strasbourg,1488),2.152a(Y2).Usedby
permission. 165
12. ‘‘CarminasupertotumMonotessaron’’(VersesontheEntire
Monotessaron).Vienna,O¨sterreichischeNationalbibliothek,Cod.
lat.4738,f.18v.Usedbypermission. 171