Wann beginnt die Papierzeit?
Zur Wissensgeschichte eines hoch- und spätmittelalterlichen Beschreibstoffs
Author(s)
Meyer-Schlenkrich, Carla
Language
GermanAbstract
Parchment or paper? The choice between these two writing materials was available to people in Italy from 1100, to those north of the Alps from the thirteenth century. If we take them by their word, they preferred the traditional animal skin. But in the hands of writers, paper took over on a broad front. This study analyzes the quiet revolution quantitatively and qualitatively, and investigates why it was so silent.
Keywords
Materiality; history of writing; printing media revolutionDOI
10.1515/9783111298931ISBN
9783111298931, 9783111294742, 9783111299525, 9783111298931Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://0-www-degruyter-com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2024Imprint
De GruyterSeries
Materiale Textkulturen, 45Classification
Literacy
Literature: history and criticism
Historiography