{"product_id":"medieval-theory-of-authorship-scholastic-literary-attitudes-in-the-later-middle-ages-paperback","title":"Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlastair Minnis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An innovative and important book.\"--\u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e \"This valuable book . . . poses in a most interesting form the question of the relationship generally between literary theory and literary practice.\"--\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \"Stimulating and learned. . . . This book should serve as a milestone in medieval literary theory.\"--\u003ci\u003eYearbook of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \"No professional medievalist with a serious interest in literature can afford to leave this book unread.\"--\u003ci\u003eBritish Book News\u003c\/i\u003e \"A work of great importance. . . . Minnis's effort takes its own direction and impressively breaks new ground . . . he has helped lay the course theoretical criticism of medieval literature will have to pursue for years to come. It is this originality which most makes \u003ci\u003eMedieval Theory of Authorship\u003c\/i\u003e the important book that it is.\"--\u003ci\u003eStudies in the Age of Chaucer\u003c\/i\u003e It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In \u003ci\u003eMedieval Theory of Authorship\u003c\/i\u003e, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Alastair Minnis asks, \"Is it not better to search again for a conceptual equipment which is at once historically valid and theoretically illuminating?\" Minnis has found such writings in the glosses and commentaries on the authoritative Latin writers studied in schools and universities between 1100 and 1400. The prologues to these commentaries provide valuable insight into the medieval theory of authorship. Of special significance is scriptural exegesis, for medieval scholars found the Bible the most difficult text to describe appropriately and accurately. \u003cb\u003eAlastair Minnis\u003c\/b\u003e is Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University. His \u003ci\u003eFallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath\u003c\/i\u003e is also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Short copy: Available again with a new preface, this classic work of medieval literary scholarship argues that discussion of late-medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory, and offers instead a conceptual equipment which is at once historically valid and theoretically illuminating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlastair Minnis is Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University. His Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath is also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 12, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130673959047,"sku":"9780812212570","price":47.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/175f7f6bd8f1e77ad1eba72652b72fbb.webp?v=1732612829","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/medieval-theory-of-authorship-scholastic-literary-attitudes-in-the-later-middle-ages-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}