Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Middle Ages Authorship


I feel this picture demonstrates the practices of the Middle Ages. It appears that both the man on the left is copying a text, whereas the man on the right may be writing his own original. Allen and Jauss make a point that "there was no distinction made between the person who wrote a text and the person who copied it."

Place pg. 78 after 1st paragraph

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