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The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers: The Dynamics of a Failed Publication
| العنوان: | The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers: The Dynamics of a Failed Publication |
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| المؤلفون: | Lauri Leinonen |
| المصدر: | Tabularia (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | OpenEdition, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medieval history |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | historiography, Normandy, William the Conqueror, William of Poitiers, publishing, autograph manuscript, Medieval history, D111-203 |
| الوصف: | This article explores William of Poitiers’ Gesta Guillelmi for its failed manuscript transmission. In spite of possessing various advantages, literary and social, the work found very few readers and was soon forgotten. It is proposed that the transmission relied on, or consisted of, an untidy autograph, lost in the eighteenth century. According to Orderic Vitalis, William did not complete the work due to “unfavourable circumstances”, probably related to the latter’s connection to the Conqueror. The essay contributes to two burgeoning scholarly discussions, on authorial publishing and on why some works failed to find readers. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English French |
| تدمد: | 1630-7364 10971343 |
| Relation: | https://journals.openedition.org/tabularia/7016; https://doaj.org/toc/1630-7364 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/11o20 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/aea99e109713432a930279eb13be0844 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.99e109713432a930279eb13be0844 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 16307364 10971343 |
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| DOI: | 10.4000/11o20 |