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The Birth of the author : pictorial prefaces in glossed books of the twelfth century / Jeffrey F. Hamburger

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Hamburger, Jeffrey F. (1957-....). Auteur

Edité par Pontifical Institute of mediaeval studies. Toronto (Canada) - 2021

This book argues that the images devised to accompany medieval commentaries, whetheron the Bible or on classical texts, made claims to authority, even inspiration, thatat times were even more forceful than those made by the texts themselves. Paradoxically,it was in the context of commentaries that modern conceptions of independent authorshipfirst were forged. Looking beyond author portraits and the genre known as the accessusad auctores, usually seen as the sites of such claims, this study examines pictorialprogrammes in copies of Horace's poetic works, the Glossa ordinaria, the dominantbiblical commentary of the first half of the twelfth century, anti-heretical polemics,and Rupert of Deutz's commentary on the Song of Songs. The inventive images fashionedto accompany these works do not merely illustrate or exemplify pre-existing understandingsof authorship; rather, they help to shape them at the very moment at which a particularhistorically situated set of ideas about authorship was itself coming into being.Pictorial prefaces of the twelfth century represent commentaries of their own thatwork both in concert with the commentaries to which they are attached but also, attimes, in ways that go beyond anything that the commentator himself authored or authorized.In this way, they participate in a broader trend in the High Middle Ages to championthe ability of images to articulate and elaborate in the manner of rhetorical persuasioncomplex arguments regarding critical matters of faith.

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