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Chapter 7 - Modes of Authorship and the Making of Medieval English Literature

from Part I - Historical Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2019

Ingo Berensmeyer
Affiliation:
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany
Gert Buelens
Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Marysa Demoor
Affiliation:
University of Ghent
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One of the most famous statements of scholastic authorial theory occurs in Bonaventure’s mid-thirteenth-century commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard.1 At the end of his prologue, the Franciscan master takes up the question of whether or not it is appropriate to call Lombard the author of the Sentences, a point initially made doubtful by the many quotations of patristic and earlier medieval writers appearing throughout the text. In his reply, Bonaventure describes what he calls the “fourfold way [modus] of making a book”

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