1st Edition
Minor Knowledge and Microhistory Manuscript Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Introduction: Towards a New Model of Fragmented History
Part I: Theory and Historiography
1. Historiography of Texts: From Literacy to Literacy Practices Within the Anglo-Saxon School of Thought
2. Scribal Culture in Transnational Perspective
3. Local and Global Perspectives as Platforms for Barefoot Historians: A Microhistorical Approach
Part II: The Structure of Culture and Education
4. Setting the Scene Within the Hard Rock of Reality
5. Vernacular Literacy Between Two Campaigns
6. Emotions and Education
Part III: Barefoot Historians and Their Everyday Life
7. Childhood, Local Culture and Educational Processes
8. A Quest for a Space – A No-Place: Scribal Communities as Institutional Structures
9. Solidarity with Substance: “History is No Respecter of Persons, It Depicts Both High and Low”
10. Postscript: Cornerstone for a Creative Space in the Nineteenth Century
Biography
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.
" (...) the authors' analysis of the work and lives of five Icelandic scribes enriches understanding of 19th-century literacy, history, and culture in ways that have applications beyond Icelandic studies and could particularly interest scholars of literacy, philology, historiography, bibliography, and more."
-M. Anderson, Southern Oregon University
