Authorship and Publicity Before PrintWidely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363 1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Yet modern scholarship has struggled to define Gerson's place in history, even as it searches for a compelling narrative to tell the story of his era. Daniel Hobbins argues for a new understanding of Gerson as a man of letters actively