Trans Histories of the Medieval Book An Experiment in Bibliography

J. D. Sargan

ISBN 10: 180270163X / ISBN 13: 9781802701630

Verlag: Arc Humanities Press, 2025

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2505960083

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Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the communities that make them. For most of western history queer, trans, and gender non-conforming people were excluded from such communities. Premodern trans experiences went largely unreported and reconstructing such histories relies on the piecing together of ephemeral glimpses. Literary scholars developed tactics and tools to read through the traces, with hugely generative results that highlight the richness of non-normative premodern genders. But how do we move beyond the limits of the trace to uncover a more expansive history of premodern gender non-conformity?

This book takes a methodological approach to the question. An experiment in applying trans approaches to the study of the premodern book offers alternatives both for trans histories and for book historical methods.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: J. D. Sargan is a book historian. He was educated at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Oxford. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia and teaches a course in Queer Bibliographies for California Rare Book School. He researches the social dynamics of book use.

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Titel: Trans Histories of the Medieval Book An ...
Verlag: Arc Humanities Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New