Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century
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The fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe. Stone, wood, cloth, parchment, and paper all provided media onto which writing was inscribed as a way to ward off loss. And the task was not easy in a world in which writing could be destroyed, manuscripts lost, or books menaced with destruction. Paradoxically, the successful spread of printing posed another danger, namely, that an uncontrollable proliferation of textual materials,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0812220463
ISBN13:9780812220469
Release Date:August 2008
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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