Bernard of Clairvaux and Nicholas of Montiéramey: Tracing the Secretarial Trail with Computational Stylistics
Jeroen De Gussem · Speculum · 2017
Although the past few decades of medieval studies have witnessed some renewed interest in the collaborative process by which medieval Latin prose was composed, such interest has nevertheless remained all too scant, and only few solutions have been offered to cope with the difficulties that rise in cases of dubious authorship.Whereas it has been rightly acknowledged that scribes, notaries, and secretaries should be regarded not merely as instrumental in the literary process, but as active participants in the composition process who have left a considerable impact on the image and style of the dictator 1 and on the materialization and dissemination of the text, 2 this acknowledgement has nevertheless been accompanied by difficulties