SC - Borrowing (was Ginestada)
Jenne Heise
jenne at tulgey.browser.net
Wed Jul 12 20:39:39 PDT 2000
> Copyright, plagiarism and all the negative connotations which accompany it
> are relatively modern ideas and really are irrelevant concepts when applied
> to medieval writings. I am surprised that the use of these terms are
> inappropriately applied to period manuscripts with regularity. Copying may be
> a 'bad' thing now but it most certainly was NOT throughout almost the
> entirety of SCA period.
Ras is right. They had other problems (like lesser-known authors passing
their work off as the work of a known author, as in the case of the
'Pseudo Albertus Magnus', or Gervase Markham who was brought to court by
his multiple publishers and forced to sign a pledge to publish no more
books on certain topics) but lifting other people's work was really not
seen as a problem. One cited one's authorities in order to lend
credibility to the text, rather than to give them their due.
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise jenne at tulgey.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
"My hands are small I know, but they're not yours, they are my own"
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