Authorship in Neo-Latin Literature (C. 1350-C. 1650)

On Authorisation and Transmission of Knowledge Via Dedications, Prefaces, Author Portraits and Depictions of Dedication Scenes
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73147-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 102, 784 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Intersections

This book throws new light on the question of authorship in Neo- Latin literature. It shows that authorship was not something to be automatically assumed, but was chiefly imparted by the paratextual features of works such as letters of dedication, prefaces and author portraits. It examines the strategies and tools used by authors, in order to incorporate themselves into secular, ecclesiastical and intellectual power structures. This is a completely revised English version of the German edition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Enenkel, Karl A E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Karl Enenkel is professor of Medieval-and Neo-Latin literature at the University of Münster. He has published five monographs and some hundred and fourty articles, and edited more than fourty collective volumes. Recently, he has finished a critical commented edition of Erasmus' Apophthegmata, books V-VIII, in the series Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi or ASD (Brill, 2025).