The Reader as Author of the User-Produced Manuscript: Reading and Rewriting Popular Latin Theology in the Late Middle Ages
Eric Reiter
"The Reader as Author of the User-Produced Manuscript: Reading and Rewriting Popular Latin Theology in Late Middle Ages." By fifteenth century, readers increasingly produced manuscripts for their own use, which allowed them considerable freedom to personalize books ways not open reader a printed book. The active creative role reader/scribe extended even rewriting or renaming works, led practice blurring categories author. Based on study textual transformations works popular theology user-produced (like widely-circulating Stella clericorum), this article explores some theoretical implications close link between reading rewriting. Modern critical models textuality reader-response, stress abstractions texts rather than physical idiosyncrasies books, fail take into account authorial evident these manuscripts, thus obscure rich evidence late medieval practices.
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