CONGRESS CANCELED Inventing the Text: Fictitious Narratives of Composition and Transmission

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

Description

Many medieval texts carefully transmit invented, misleading, or incomplete stories of the circumstances of their own composition and transmission. These can range from the discovery of a lost manuscript in a tomb to the attribution of a text to a (pseudo-) author. This panel includes papers exploring how these metanarratives and constructed histories affect both the reputation and the meaning of the texts they accompany, for both medieval audiences and modern interpreters.

Daniel Donoghue

This paper has been withdrawn.
 
May 9th, 3:30 PM

CONGRESS CANCELED Inventing the Text: Fictitious Narratives of Composition and Transmission

Schneider 1130

Many medieval texts carefully transmit invented, misleading, or incomplete stories of the circumstances of their own composition and transmission. These can range from the discovery of a lost manuscript in a tomb to the attribution of a text to a (pseudo-) author. This panel includes papers exploring how these metanarratives and constructed histories affect both the reputation and the meaning of the texts they accompany, for both medieval audiences and modern interpreters.

Daniel Donoghue