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Julien Stout
This article offers a reappraisal of the "birth of the French author" in medieval manuscripts by drawing attention to how such a phenomenon was highly influenced by the writerly culture of the time's relationship to the ancient auctores. Focusing mainly on manuscript Paris, Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal 3142 (ca. 1285), it proposes to shift the scholarly conversation on medieval French authorship away from "subject" and "subjectivity". Instead, using a manuscript and data-based approach, it shows how French authorship may have been an experimental codicological phenomenon collectively manufactured by clients, "editors", and poets to subvert and deconstruct Latin theories and practices of authorship inherited from Antiquity.
