Magnússon / Ólafsson / Olafsson Minor Knowledge and Microhistory

Manuscript Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-60782-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in the everyday life of the peasantry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Magnússon, Sigurður Gylfi

Ólafsson, Davíð

Olafsson, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Scribal Culture in International Perspective 2. Barefoot Historians: Education in the Modern Period 3. Minor Knowledge: Scribal Communities and the Importance of Institutional Structures 4. Solidarity with Substance: The Local Tale Tradition and Popular Culture as a "Creative Space" 5. Postscript: The Methods of Microhistory as a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Scribal Cultures

Über Autor(innen)

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon is Professor of Cultural History in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Iceland.

Davíð Ólafsson is Adjunct Lecturer of Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, at the University of Iceland.