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Practices of Annotating Texts in the Early Middle Ages

Hörsaal des Instituts für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik
Postgasse 7/1/3.Stock, 1010 Wien

Vortrag


MARIKEN TEEUWEN (Leiden University)

 

In the age of printed book, writing in the margin is often viewed as a disgrace: a violation of the beauty and integrity of the book. But in the world of handwritten books, this was completely different. Here, the purpose of annotations in the margins and interlinear spaces was often to enrich the text with explanation, additional information, references to other works, comments of a critical nature, or sheer approval. This is what makes the activity of the readers and students in the margins so valuable: they offer us a peek over the shoulder of the medieval scholar and allow us a flash insight into his (or her) thinking. In this paper, practices of annotation books in the Early Middle Ages are shown and interpreted in order to deepen our understanding of the intellectual culture of the period.

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