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Author and Authenticity in Conring’s New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor: A Seventeenth-Century Case Study*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Constantin Fasolt
Constantin Fasolt*
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The University of Chicago
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Abstract

Hermann Conring (1606-1681) disavowed responsibility for the New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor (1642) because it was a pirated reprint of a dissertation prepared by one of his students. A closer look, however, reveals that the New Discourse reflects Conring's most radical ideas more faithfully than do works indisputably written by himself even those he wrote expressly in order to correct the misrepresentations of which the New Discourse was allegedly guilty. That suggests that concepts of authorship and authenticity may conceal the true relationship between writers and their ideas.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , Spring 2001 , pp. 188 - 220
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2001

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