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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453185903321

Autore

Gómez-Bravo Ana M (Ana María)

Titolo

Textual agency : writing culture and social networks in fifteenth-century Spain / / Ana M. Gómez-Bravo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4426-6751-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Collana

Toronto Iberic

Disciplina

686.2094609/024

Soggetti

Incunabula - Spain

Transmission of texts - Spain

Paratext - Spain - History

Paper

Writing materials and instruments - History

Authorship - Sociological aspects

Spanish literature - To 1500 - History and criticism

Literature and society - Spain - History - 15th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Poetry, Bureaucracy, and the Social Order -- 2. Escribano Culture and Socio-professional Contiguity -- 3. Pervasive Papers -- 4. The Hands Have It -- 5. Papers Unite -- 6. Paper Politics -- 7. Books as Memory -- 8. Arranging the Compilation -- 9. The Book of Fragments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Textual Agency examines the massive proliferation of poetic texts in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing on the important yet little-known cancionero poetry - the largest poetic corpus of the European Middle Ages. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo situates this cultural production within its social, political, and material contexts. She places the different forms of document production fostered by a shifting political and urban model alongside the rise in literacy and access to reading materials and



spaces.At the core of the book lies an examination of both the materials of writing and how human agents used and transformed them, giving way to a textual agency that pertains not only to writers, but to the inscribed paper. Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation.