Textual Communities, Textual Selves: Essays in Dialogue with Brian Stock

Hardback, xii + 272 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:9 col., Language: English. ISBN 9780888448378. Summary The essays in this volume investigate ways that textual practices in the classical and medieval periods generated collective and individual expressions of identity. Engaging in dialogue with Brian Stock's seminal contributions to the history of literacy, especially Augustine the Reader, The Implications of Literacy, and Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century, the essays initiate new conversations about models of interpretation, habits of reading, textual communities, and forms of self-writing. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Plates Abbreviations Acknowledgements Sarah Powrie and Gur Zak Introduction Aviad Kleinberg A Life of Brian Seth Lerer The Textualized Augustine and Late Antique Communities Paul Saenger Augustine as Reader: Prospects for Collaboration between Palaeography and the Neurosciences Sarah Spence Augustine, Virgil, and the Landscape of Memory John Magee Boethius and the Legacy of Alexander of Aphrodisias: The Elementary Commentary on De interpretatione 10, 19b22-24, and Related Texts Constant J. Mews Rereading The Twelve Abuses of the Age: From Seventh-Century Ireland to Twelfth-Century France Marcia l. Colish Self-Baptism in the Middle Ages? Willemien Otten Nature's Mediation: William of Conches and Hildegard of Bingen on Creation and the Cosmos Sarah Powrie Allegories of the Formless Self in Augustine's Confessions and Bernardus Silvestris's Cosmographia Gur Zak After Petrarch: Writing and Self-Care in Giovanni Conversini's Rationarium vite Jane Tylus Listening for the Ending Catherine Conybeare Augustine and Wittgenstein: The Inner Dialogue Continued Natalie Zemon Davis A Scholarly Friendship: In Tribute to Brian Stock Publications of Brian Stock Contributors Index 0 g.…