HAA 246P - The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Paratexts in the Middle Ages

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2021

Jeffrey Hamburger

Thursdays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm

The interaction of authority and authorship in the High Middle Ages, especially in the context of glossed books and commentaries, but also emergent vernacular literatures, with a focus on pictorial constructions of authorship and the image of the book.