Verborgen, unsichtbar, unlesbar - zur Problematik restringierter Schriftpräsenz

• Main Author: Krüger, Kristina (auth)
• Other Authors: Frese, Tobias (auth), Keil, Wilfried E. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2014
• Series: Materiale Textkulturen
• Subjects: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Invisibility; writing
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

From the perspective of early modernity, the presence of writing is linked to its visibility and legibility. This may be a questionable assumption, and it was especially problematic for writers in the premodern era, for whom concealment and veiling played such an important role. The aim of this book...