TY  - BOOK
AU  - Niskanen,Samu
TI  - Publication and the papacy in late antiquity and the Middle Ages
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture,
SN  - 9781009109864 (ebook)
AV  - Z291.4 .N57 2021
U1  - 070.5094 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Publishing
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Literature, Medieval
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Dec 2021)
N2  - This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of new works was a phenomenon, which surged in the eleventh century. The efforts by four authors to use their papal connexions in the interests of publicity are examined as case studies. The first two are St Jerome and Arator, late antique writers who became highly influential partly due to their declaration that their literary projects enjoyed papal sanction. Appreciation of their publication strategies sets the scene for a comparison with two eleventh-century authors, Fulcoius of Beauvais and St Anselm. This Element argues that papal involvement in publication constituted a powerful promotional technique. It is a hermeneutic that brings insights into both the aspirations and concerns of medieval authors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009109864
ER  -