Religious Controversy in Europe, 1378-1536: Textual Transmission and Networks of Readership: 27 (Medieval Church Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2503544282 ISBN 13: 9782503544281

Publisher: Brepols N.V., 2013

Synopsis

This book gathers new work by scholars who share a common interest not only in the controversial texts of the period between 1378 and 1536, but also in how the use, geographical movement, and manipulation of texts contributed materially to the formation of groups and group identities. The period covered spans the traditional medieval/early modern divide and the concomitant transition from manuscript to print. The years between the eruption of the Great Schism and the outbreak of European reformations witnessed unprecedented rifts in communities, institutions, and alliances. Yet while the crises of this period gave rise to division, they also prompted new groups to coalesce, resulting in realignments of communication networks, readership, and textual circulation in Europe. The Councils of Constance and Basel facilitated the production and dissemination of vast quantities of documents. Movements challenging the Roman Church and efforts to reform the Church from within provoked a torrent of persuasive and polemical writings which gained further momentum with the introduction of printing. These new situations also fostered the development and expression of group identities, defined by doctrine, opposition, vernacularity, and a burgeoning sense of national self-consciousness. Religious Controversy in Europe, 1378-1536 examines the textual and material circumstances of these developments.

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Review

"The essays collected here...illumine the way in which disagreements about religion shaped and transformed traditional notions of authorship, textual production and dissemination." --Marcela K. Perett, The Medieval Review

About the Author

Michael Van Dussen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at McGill University and specializes in communication before print in the Latin West, with emphasis on England's relations with Central Europe. He is the author of From England to Bohemia: Heresy and Communication in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2012) and the co-editor, with Pavel Soukup, of Religious Controversy in Europe, 1378 1536: Textual Transmission and Networks of Readership (2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols N.V.
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503544282
• ISBN 13: 9782503544281
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Van Dussen Michael, Soukup Pavel