Tracking the dissemination of a specific workMaurizioSanesiSISMELRobertaGiacomiSISMELEmilianoDegl'InnocentiCNR-OVIClausSpieckerFHPKarolienVerbruggeNIODPARTHENOS
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Tracking the dissemination of a specific work
In medieval studies, the dissemination of a work can give
important information on life and movements of the author; plus, it can influence local history
and everyday activities: i.e. some medical practices were performed just in places where the
work carrying information about them was spread. Moreover, it can be useful also to understand
if the work was disseminated alone or together with other works, and why: for instance, in
medieval universities the essential works for the study of a discipline were often gathered in
the same manuscript. Therefore, scholars may have interest in the itinerary made by a given
work, and may want to track it.HistoryPhoto from Wikimedia