Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
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Edited by:
Rebecca Menmuir
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Rebecca Menmuir is Darby Fellow (Simon and June Li Fellowship) in English Literature at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
VII - Part I: Definitions and Distinctions
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Angles of Authenticity
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Chapter 2 Homo authenticus
27 - Part II: Forging Authenticity
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Chapter 3 Paradoxes of Authenticity in the Pseudo- Ovidian De vetula
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Chapter 4 Forging Catiline: Portraits of the Arch- Conspirator in Medieval and Early Modern Pseudepigrapha
75 - Part III: Histories
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Chapter 5 Evidence, Truth, and Authenticity in the Vita Haroldi
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Chapter 6 “Enucleator venio, non impugnator”: The Uneven Authority of Pseudohistories in the Works of Gerald of Wales
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Chapter 7 Relics of Something True: Constructing the Authentic in Milton’s History of Britain
145 - Part IV: Translations
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Chapter 8 Authenticity through Collaborative (Re)translation: The Ovide moralisé and Its Successors
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Chapter 9 An Exemplary Fake: The Letters of Pseudo- Phalaris in the Italian Quattrocento
193 - Part V: Continuations and Canon-Formation
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Chapter 10 Authenticity, Apocrypha, and the Early Modern Chaucer Canon
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Chapter 11 The Varieties of Authenticity in Renaissance Classical Supplements
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Contributor Information
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Index
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