How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time
Carolyn Dinshawamazon.com
How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time
"Authorship"-in the sense we know it today, individual intellectual effort related to the book as an economic commodity-was practically unknown before the advent of print technology. Medieval scholars were indifferent to the precise identity of the "books" they studied. In turn, they rarely signed even what was clearly their own. They were a humble
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