{"product_id":"authorship-and-publicity-before-print-1","title":"Authorship and Publicity Before Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eWidely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Yet modern scholarship has struggled to define Gerson's place in history, even as it searches for a compelling narrative to tell the story of his era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaniel Hobbins argues for a new understanding of Gerson as a man of letters actively managing the publication of his works in a period of rapid expansion in written culture. More broadly, Hobbins casts Gerson as a mirror of the complex cultural and intellectual shifts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In contrast to earlier theologians, Gerson took a more humanist approach to reading and to authorship. He distributed his works, both Latin and French, to a more diverse medieval public. And he succeeded in reaching a truly international audience of readers within his lifetime. Through such efforts, Gerson effectively embodies the aspirations of a generation of writers and intellectuals. Removed from the narrow confines of late scholastic theology and placed into a broad interdisciplinary context, his writings open a window onto the fascinating landscape of fifteenth-century Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture of late medieval culture that emerges from this study offers neither a specter of decaying scholasticism nor a triumphalist narrative of budding humanism and reform. Instead, Hobbins describes a period of creative and dynamic growth, when new attitudes toward writing and debate demanded and eventually produced new technologies of the written word.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Daniel Hobbins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572107772086,"sku":"9780812202298","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780812202298_4e940cc5-baf4-411c-abdd-ed89dadcad86.jpg?v=1727173600","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/authorship-and-publicity-before-print-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}