Minor Knowledge and Microhistory: Manuscript Culture in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781138812079 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 242 str.

Sigurour Gylfi Magnusson; Davio Olafsson

Opis

This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in the everyday life of the peasantry.

O autorze

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon is Professor of Cultural History in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Iceland. Davíð Ólafsson is Adjunct Lecturer of Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, at the University of Iceland.