Building the Auctores: Assessing the Use of Authorities in the Construction of Medieval Texts
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds
Organizer Name
Lauren A. Moreau
Organizer Affiliation
Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds
Presider Name
Axel E. W. Müller
Presider Affiliation
Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds
Paper Title 1
The Reception of Ambrosius Autpertus's De conflictu uitiorum atque uirtutum in the Pseudo-Bonaventure Liber pharetrae 2.15: Digital Approaches to Intertextual Evidence
Presenter 1 Name
Chris L. Nighman
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Paper Title 2
Purloined Words and Stolen Authority? Referencing Methods, Functions, Forgery, and Authority in British Library Cotton Claudius B.iv, the Old English Hexateuch
Presenter 2 Name
Erica Simonitis
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Paper Title 3
Continuing Tradition and Creating Text: Old and New Auctores in Middle English Debate Poetry
Presenter 3 Name
Kathleen Burt
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Marquette Univ.
Paper Title 4
Hierarchies of Authority: Assessing the Auctores in Sermons Produced in England in the Fourteenth Century
Presenter 4 Name
Lauren A. Moreau
Start Date
15-5-2015 3:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 2016
Description
Within the course of medieval texts, auctores serve a variety of rhetorical purposes, such as developing an argument and providing gravitas. Although a great deal of scholarship has focussed on the theoretical aspects of the use of authority, fewer scholars have tackled the more practical aspects of writing authorities into the flow of the texts themselves. Questions on the ways in which medieval writers chose to reference both auctores and authoritative works have remained largely unanswered. The papers in this session will explore the ways in which textual authorities are used rhetorically in the construction of texts, paying particular attention to writers’ referencing methods, the placement of textual authorities and their overall function in the texts considered. The session will also include the treatment of the use of authority in the written and oral contexts of the texts.
Axel E.W. Müller and Lauren A. Moreau
Building the Auctores: Assessing the Use of Authorities in the Construction of Medieval Texts
Fetzer 2016
Within the course of medieval texts, auctores serve a variety of rhetorical purposes, such as developing an argument and providing gravitas. Although a great deal of scholarship has focussed on the theoretical aspects of the use of authority, fewer scholars have tackled the more practical aspects of writing authorities into the flow of the texts themselves. Questions on the ways in which medieval writers chose to reference both auctores and authoritative works have remained largely unanswered. The papers in this session will explore the ways in which textual authorities are used rhetorically in the construction of texts, paying particular attention to writers’ referencing methods, the placement of textual authorities and their overall function in the texts considered. The session will also include the treatment of the use of authority in the written and oral contexts of the texts.
Axel E.W. Müller and Lauren A. Moreau