Microliteratures

The Production of the Margin in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Books

Jesús R. Velasco (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

246 Seiten

2025
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
9781501782381 (ISBN)

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Microliteratures is an innovative examination of writings done in the margins of medieval manuscripts and early modern books. Not always as formal as glosses, sometimes feverish and abbreviated, these marginal writings or, "microliteratures," are the product of readers thinking with the text at the center of the page. Jesús R. Velasco argues that microliteratures are not private annotations but, rather, a humanistic activity performed in the public sphere. These marginal engagements with texts are made public to future readers of the same book.

Surveying the microliteratures of a wide range of medieval and early modern Iberian genres—legal, religious, chivalric, and political texts—Velasco finds that in the shared space and time of reading, microliterary actions and artifacts are also models of public humanities work that connects texts to contemporary issues. Microliteratures emerge from this ambitious book as a way of understanding the self as a reflective and politically engaged reader in conversation with past, present, and future readers as contemporaries.

Jesús R. Velasco is the Augustus R. Street Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is the author of Dead Voice and Order and Chivalry. Consuelo Lopez-Morillas is Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington.

Introduction
1. Order and Discipline
2. The Production of the Margin
3. Centripetal Glosses
4. Activism
5. Assemblage, Subject
6. A Vernacular Society
Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2025
Reihe/Serie	Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
Übersetzer	Consuelo López-Morillas
Vorwort	M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Anne E. Lester
Zusatzinfo	12 b&w halftones - 12 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-13	9781501782381 / 9781501782381
Zustand	Neuware