Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-1-5015-2172-0 (ISBN)
What does it mean to be authentic? The term is as pervasive today as it is difficult to define. To be 'authentic' in the Middle Ages or Early Modernity was no less of a complex task, albeit framed in ways different to today's concept of authenticity as an individualistic or capitalistic venture (think 'being true to oneself' or 'brand authenticity').
This volume examines a range of Medieval and Early Modern approaches to authenticity in literature, asking how authenticity was defined, privileged, constructed, and contested in the periods covered.
Essays trace the shifting status of authenticity across four literary categories which most test the concept of premodern authenticity: forgeries, histories, translations, and continuations. Contributions engage with works across Latin, Greek, English, French, and Irish, and set authenticity in conversation with medieval and modern perspectives on authority, truth, and morality.
Rebecca Menmuir is Darby Fellow (Simon and June Li Fellowship) in English Literature at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK.
"This interdisciplinary book reminds the reader that the vexing nature of authenticity and its contestation-and the destructive and creative activities of forgery and its demolition-ran straight through the full range of literary production throughout the medieval and early modern periods, in works of imaginative literature, historiography, the construction of patriotic mythologies, life writing, religious and secular psuedepigrapha, and beyond."
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.06.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 530 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | authenticity • Authentizität • authority • Autorität • Fälschung • Forgery • premodern • Translation • Übersetzung • Vormoderne |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5015-2172-1 / 1501521721 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5015-2172-0 / 9781501521720 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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