HAA 146P: The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Paratexts in the Middle Ages

Instructor: Jeffrey Hamburger
Th 3-5:45
Location: TBA

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.