Established Libraries as a Destination for Newly Published Works in a Manuscript Culture. Medieval Authors’ Perspectives

dc.contributor.authorKujawiński Jakub
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-27T10:44:44Z
dc.date.available2024-09-27T10:44:44Z
dc.date.issued2023-10
dc.description.abstractThe chapter argues that established book repositories were part of medieval authors’ intentions and practices when aiming for a home for a newly composed work. The main concern of authors publishing in manuscript may have been for simple preservation of their writings. Institutional repositories must have appeared a safer bet than many private book collections. They were also seen as conveyers of authority and prestige, as suggested by statements made by John of Capua or Arnau de Vilanova. Finally, the words of Gregory the Great, Arnau de Vilanova, Jacopo Stefaneschi, Giovanni Boccaccio, Jean Gerson, or Thomas Gascoigne show that libraries were further assigned the role of distributor, if not publisher. A good number of works that were deposited with corporate bodies that were neither the commissioners nor dedicatees of that work invites to acknowledge the role of external institutions and their libraries, which were equally expected and able to support medieval authors in their endeavours.
dc.description.sponsorshipAcademy of Finland University of Jyväskylä European Union’s Horizon 2020
dc.identifier.citationLate Medieval and Early Modern Libraries: Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change, ed. by Outi Merisalo, Nataša Golob, Leonardo Magionami, Turnhout 2023, pp. 51–69
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10593/27840
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBrepols
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBibliologia 68
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectMedieval libraries
dc.subjectMedieval Publishing
dc.subjectMedieval Authorship
dc.subjectLiterary Patronage
dc.titleEstablished Libraries as a Destination for Newly Published Works in a Manuscript Culture. Medieval Authors’ Perspectives
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart

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