Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts - printed, handwrit-
ten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in - offer a glimpse of
how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and
manu- scripts over often lengthy periods of time. The chapters in
this volume build on earlier scholarship that established
marginalia as an intellec- tual method (Grafton and Jardine), as
records of reading motivated by cultural, social, theological, and
personal inclinations (Brayman [Hackel] and Orgel), and as
practices inspired by material affordances particular to the book
and the pen (Fleming and Sherman). They further the study of the
practices of marginalia as a mode - a set of ways in which material
opportunities and practices overlap with intellectual, social, and
personal motivations to make meaning in the world. They introduce
us to a set of idiosyncratic examples such as the trace marks of
objects left in books, deliberately or by accident; cut-and-pasted
additions to printed volumes; a marriage depicted through shared
book ownership. They reveal to us in case studies the unique value
of mar- ginalia as evidence of phenomena as important and diverse
as religious change, authorial self-invention, and the history of
the literary canon. The chapters of this book go beyond the case
study, however, and raise broad historical, cultural, and
theoretical questions about the strange, marvelous, metamorphic
thing we call the book, and the equally mul- tiplicitous,
eccentric, and inscrutable beings who accompany them through
history: readers and writers.
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