Medieval Women Authors as Collaborators: Negotiating Authority and Authorship for Writers and Readers
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis Univ.
Organizer Name
Cait Stevenson
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Notre Dame
Presider Name
Kathleen Llewellyn
Presider Affiliation
St. Louis Univ.
Paper Title 1
Beyond Patronage: The Case for Queenly Co-Authorship of the Castilan Royal Chronicles
Presenter 1 Name
Janice North
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Paper Title 2
The Letters of Margaret Paston: Are They Collaborative Works and How
Presenter 2 Name
Osamu Ohara
Presenter 2 Affiliation
School of Medicine, Jikei Univ.
Paper Title 3
Let's Build a Saint: Writing the Contested Sanctity of Magdalena Beutler
Presenter 3 Name
Cait Stevenson
Start Date
14-5-2016 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1345
Description
Texts by and about medieval women were neither written nor read in isolation. This session will help expand our understanding of the creative vibrancy of medieval women and their texts by viewing the works and their authors as participants in an intellectual, temporal and financial economy of collaboration. We invite papers that explore and broaden our understanding of different processes of collaboration and their impact on the texts they produced. In addition to questions surrounding the process of composition, we will examine how collaborative textual production affected medieval readers’ understanding of the works and their authors. Overall, this panel will shed light on dimensions of authority and transmission of knowledge as well as increasing our understanding of medieval women operating in their world.
Medieval Women Authors as Collaborators: Negotiating Authority and Authorship for Writers and Readers
Schneider 1345
Texts by and about medieval women were neither written nor read in isolation. This session will help expand our understanding of the creative vibrancy of medieval women and their texts by viewing the works and their authors as participants in an intellectual, temporal and financial economy of collaboration. We invite papers that explore and broaden our understanding of different processes of collaboration and their impact on the texts they produced. In addition to questions surrounding the process of composition, we will examine how collaborative textual production affected medieval readers’ understanding of the works and their authors. Overall, this panel will shed light on dimensions of authority and transmission of knowledge as well as increasing our understanding of medieval women operating in their world.