IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 313: 14th-Century Collected Works and the Consequences for the Medieval Concept of Vernacular Authorship
Monday 4 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Gent |
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| Organiser: | Youri Desplenter, Vakgroep Nederlandse literatuur, Universiteit Gent |
| Moderator/Chair: | Youri Desplenter, Vakgroep Nederlandse literatuur, Universiteit Gent |
| Paper 313-a | Making Authors: The Cases of Eckhart, Tauler, and Seuse (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 313-b | The Community of Groenendaal and the Collecting of Authorial Oeuvres: Ruusbroec and Van Leeuwen (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Dutch, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 313-c | Evaluating Christine de Pizan's Audience through the Queen's Manuscript (London, British Library, MS Harley 4431) (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Over the course of the 13th and 14th centuries, various features that identify and privilege the author appeared in vernacular manuscripts from several Western-European literary traditions and genres. The interest in the author was at its highest point when an entire manuscript was assigned to them, and not just when the authorial name determined a section of the codex. This 'opera omnia phenomenon', the 'publication' of the complete oeuvre of a specific author, is not therefore to be situated after the emergence of the printing press, as has been generally assumed, but around the turn of the 14th century. In this session, we wish to discuss this phenomenon and its consequences for the concepts of authorship and authority, by examining cases from French, German, and Dutch traditions: the opera omnia of Christine de Pizan, Heinrich Seuse, Johannes Tauler, Jan van Ruusbroec, and Jan van Leeuwen will be central. |