| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Middle Ages series
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| Contents |
Gerson as bookman : prescribing "the common school of theological truth" -- Justifying authorship : new diseases and new cures -- A tour of medieval authorship : late works and poetry -- Literary expression : logic, rhetoric, and scholarly vice -- The schoolman as public intellectual : implications of the late medieval tract -- Publishing before print (1) : a series of publishing moments -- Publishing before print (2) : from coterie readership to massive market |
| Summary |
Modern scholarship has struggled to define Jean Gerson's place in history despite the fact that he was regarded by his contemporaraies as one of the most powerful theologians of the late 14th and early 15th centuries. Daniel Hobbins however argues that Gerson was a mirror of the complex cultural and intellectual shifts of his age |
| Analysis |
"Multi-User" |
| Notes |
OldControl:muse9780812202298 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429 -- Books and reading
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Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429
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Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429 -- Books and reading
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Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429
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Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429. |
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Books and reading -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Authorship -- History -- To 1500
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Authorship.
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Books and reading.
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812202298 |
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0812202295 |
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