Gomez-Bravo, Ann M.

Textual Agency : Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (340 pages) - Toronto Iberic Series . - Toronto Iberic Series .

Intro -- Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Poetry, Bureaucracy, and the Social Order -- 2 Escribano Culture and Socio-professional Contiguity -- 3 Pervasive Papers -- 4 The Hands Have It -- 5 Papers Unite -- 6 Paper Politics -- 7 Books as Memory -- 8 Arranging the Compilation -- 9 The Book of Fragments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- TORONTO IBERIC.

Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation.

9781442667518


Electronic books.

Z173 .G66 2013

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