TEXTS OR PARATEXTS: ON THE LIMINALITY OF THE SOUTH SLAVIC MARGINALIA FROM THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
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Jun 20, 2020
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early modern paratexts, plague epidemic, Church Slavonic marginalia, Zrze Tetraevangelion manuscript, curses
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Over the last decades, the margins of manuscripts and early printed books have attracted as much scholarly attention as the primary texts they surround. As a result, the term “paratext” has begun to appear regularly in scholarly debates about premodern verbal or pictorial material found in the marginal white space. One of the main assumptions of Gérard Genette’s theoretical framework is that paratexts – broadly defined as the ‘undefined zone’ surrounding the primary text and mediating between the text, the author and the reader – can add to our understanding of the text. This paper explores whether Genette’s distinction between
text and paratext is useful when we attempt to conceptualise early modern South Slavic marginalia. Focusing on an inscription that records an outbreak of plague in the village of Zrze, in 1538, this paper demonstrates that seeing these scattered inscriptions in less dichotomous terms opens the space for understanding the various roles these enigmatic fragments played in the imagination of the early modern South Slavs.
text and paratext is useful when we attempt to conceptualise early modern South Slavic marginalia. Focusing on an inscription that records an outbreak of plague in the village of Zrze, in 1538, this paper demonstrates that seeing these scattered inscriptions in less dichotomous terms opens the space for understanding the various roles these enigmatic fragments played in the imagination of the early modern South Slavs.
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N. Nikolovska, Kristina. 2020. “TEXTS OR PARATEXTS: ON THE LIMINALITY OF THE SOUTH SLAVIC MARGINALIA FROM THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD”. Journal of Contemporary Philology 3 (1), 97–110. https://doi.org/10.37834/JCP2030097n.
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Ciotti, G. and Lin, H. (eds.). (2016). Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Cooper, C. E. (2015). ‘What is Medieval Paratext?’. Marginalia, (19): 37–50.
Genette, G. (1997). Paratexts:Thresholds of interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jackson, H. J. (2001). Marginalia: readers writing in books. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Lamb, S. (2011). Evidence from absence: omission and inclusion in early medieval annals. In Dresvina, J. and Sparks, N. (eds.). The Medieval Chronicle VII, 45–62. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
Meyendorff, J. (1975). Christ in Eastern Christian Thought. New York: SVS Press.
Middleton, J. H. (2010). Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times: And Their Art and Their Technique. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nikolovska, K. (2016). ‘When the living envied the dead’: Church Slavonic Paratexts and the Apocalyptic Framework of Monk Isaija’s Colophon (1371). In G. Ciotti and H. Lin (eds.). Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts, 185–222. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Petrovszky, K. (2017). Marginal notes in South Slavic written culture: Between practicing memory and accounting for the self. Cahiers du Monde russe, 58 (3): 483–502.
Ruokkeinen, S. and Liira, A. (2017). Material Approaches to Exploring the Borders of Paratext. Textual Cultures, 11(1/2): 106–129.
Sherman, W. H. (2008). Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Smith, H. and Wilson, L. (eds.). (2011). Renaissance paratexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Turner, P. (2011). The Book of the Gospels. Deacon Digest 28(6): 20–21.