Minor knowledge and microhistory : manuscript culture in the nineteenth century / by Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon and Davíð Ólafsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sigurður G. Magnússon, author.

Davíð Ólafsson, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in cultural history ; 47.

Routledge studies in cultural history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts--Social aspects--History--19th century.

Manuscripts.

Transmission of texts--History--19th century.

Transmission of texts.

Scribes--History--19th century.

Scribes.

Written communication--History--19th century.

Written communication.

Peasants--Intellectual life--19th century.

Peasants.

Literacy--History--19th century.

Literacy.

Education--Social aspects--History--19th century.

Education.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Microhistory.

Historiography--Philosophy.

Historiography.

Education--Social aspects.

History.

Peasants--Intellectual life.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Towards a new model of fragmented history

Part I. Theory and historiography

Historiography of texts : from literacy to literacy practices within the Anglo-Saxon school of thought

Scribal culture in transnational perspective

Local and global perspectives as platforms for barefoot historians : a microhistorical approach

Part II. The structure of culture and education

Setting the scene within the hard rock of reality

Vernacular literacy between two campaigns

Emotions and education

Part III. Barefoot historians and their everyday life

Childhood, local culture and educational processes

A quest for a space...no-place : scribal communities as institutional structures

Solidarity with substance : "History is no respecter of persons, it depicts both high and low"

Postscript: Cornerstone for a creative space in the nineteenth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sigurður G. Magnússon, author. Minor knowledge and microhistory

ISBN:

9781138812079

1138812072

OCLC:

957704967