Abstract:Jacob Böhme’s Aurora was famously “publicised” or “published” in manuscript without his authorisation, due to which he ran into trouble in 1613. This event took place within an existing scribal culture that determined the manner in which Böhme’s works circulated in manuscript and provided him with the strategies he employed to manage this process. Using Böhme’s correspondence and other sources, this article describes that scribal culture with its practices and conventions. Even Böhme’s printed Weg zu Christo f… Show more
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