The common writer in modern history / / ed. by Martyn Lyons.

• MitwirkendeR: Ashplant, T. G.,; Elspaß, Stephan,; Gerber, David A.,; Gómez, Antonio Castillo,; King, Steven,; Lyons, Martyn,; Magnússon, Sigurður Gylfi,; Moss, David,; Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti,; Schechter, Brandon M.,; Stanley, Liz,; Turunen, Risto,; Ólafsson, Davíð,
• HerausgeberIn: Lyons, Martyn,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester : : Manchester University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 12 images

This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it foregrounds the ‘common writer’ and contributes to a ‘New History from Below’. The book presents pauper...