Verborgen, unsichtbar, unlesbar - zur Problematik restringierter Schriftpräsenz

• 1. Verfasser: Krüger, Kristina (auth)
• Weitere Verfasser: Frese, Tobias (auth), Keil, Wilfried E. (auth)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: De Gruyter 2014
• Schriftenreihe: Materiale Textkulturen
• Schlagworte: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Invisibility; writing
• Online-Zugang: 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...