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4. The Material and the Implied Library: Book Collections, Media History, and Authority in 12th Century Papal Europe


 
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1. Title Title of document 4. The Material and the Implied Library: Book Collections, Media History, and Authority in 12th Century Papal Europe - Reframing Authority
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Lars Mortensen; University of Southern Denmark; Denmark
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Religious Studies; History
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) Media history; literary culture in the Middle Ages; libraries; history writing; authority changes; 12-13th century culture
 
5. Subject Subject classification Study of Religion
 
6. Description Abstract In this contribution, I discuss authrity, materiality, and media in relation to medieval libraries and textual culture in Western Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries. More specifically, I focus on some aspects of textual retrievability, storage and authority that I find both important and relevant for a literary media history, but which have tended to fall out of focus both before and after a material turn in literary studies – possibly because they are located in between a concrete material and a more abstract space of intentionality and ideals. I draw on examples from 12th and 13th century historical writings in order to analyse the specific conditions under which a new avenue to authority opened up in literary culture, and the roles played by forms of materiality and media for understandings of or transformations of authority, in medieval text culture in Western Europe. My key prism for this investigation is the medieval library, in terms of its material and physical form, but also of its accumulated and imagined form.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 12-Nov-2018
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/34218
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.34218
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Reframing Authority
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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19. Rights Copyright and permissions Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd