manuscript culture
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Eike Grossmann, ed. Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures.
This collection offers an ambitious and necessary look into the study of manuscript traditions that addresses the long-overlooked contributions of women across diverse historical and cultural contexts.
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In Defence of Publishing before Print
Can a medieval manuscript, or indeed any form of textual codification that happened prior to the printing press, be referred to as a form of publication? The aim of this…
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Sarah Peters Kernan and Helga Müllneritsch, eds. Culinary Texts in Context, 1500-1800: Manuscript Recipe Books in Early Modern Europe.
A study of recipe collections transmitted in early modern manuscripts produced in western Europe.
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Tyler W. Williams. If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi.
This book investigates how examining Hindi manuscripts as material texts rewrites the literary historiography of late medieval and early modern north India.
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Ada Maria Kuskowski. Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France.
Ada Maria Kuskowski’s Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France is an innovative study of the earliest customary lawbooks (coutumiers) written in northern France that…
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Mark Alan Mattes, ed. Handwriting in Early America: A Media History.
In 2010, changes to American education standards eliminated the mandate to teach handwriting in public schools. As a result many states dropped the practice in classrooms. Yet in recent years…
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Pentiment: An Interview with Josh Sawyer
Pentiment (Obsidian 2022, $19.99, Xbox and Steam), the new narrative game from Obsidian, is a piece of media that gets a rare trio of things right: it’s beautiful to look…
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Scrapbooks as Literary Documents
The scrapbook has a well-established place within the history of the book that spans from early modern commonplace books to the digital layouts of today. These often overlooked textual objects…