This volume documents the papers given at the eighteenth symposium of the German Medievalists' Society that took place in Tübingen in spring 2019. The topic of the volume picks up on current debates around authorship, copyright, originality and plagiarism, and asks how these concepts are reflected in medieval concepts of creativity and imitation in a range of contributions from different disciplines.

Autorentext
Volker Leppin, Universität Tübingen.

Zusammenfassung

The series offers an interdisciplinary forum for peer-reviewed, thematically focussed anthologies and selected conference proceedings, as well as monographs on topics from the field of medieval studies. As such it complements the journal Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung, published by the Mediävistenverband (Medievalists' Society) and aims at covering all academic disciplines represented by the society. The scope thus ranges from the study of history and theology, Byzantine and Latin studies, to modern language philologies. Each volume aims at overcoming the boundaries of disciplines and of nationally-conceived academic traditions.