Wordmongers : post-medieval scribal culture and the case of Sighvatur Grímsson

• Main Author: Ólafsson, Davíð
• Other Authors: Houston, R. A. (Robert Allan)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of St Andrews 2009
• Subjects: Z107.5G8O6; Grímsson; Sighvatur; 1840-1930; Scribes > Iceland > Biography; Transmission of texts > Iceland > 19th century; Manuscripts; Icelandic; Books and reading > Iceland > History; Icelandic literature > 19th century > History and criticism; Iceland > Intellectual life > 19th century; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/770

The subject matter of this thesis is manuscript and scribal culture in the age of print. Its first part explores the flourishing scholarship of post-medieval scribal culture in Europe and beyond over the past 25-30 years, as well as recent trends and turns in the historiography of printing and of li...