{"id":247,"date":"2012-03-15T15:23:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T20:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoveriesoftheamericas.org\/?p=247"},"modified":"2012-03-15T15:23:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T20:23:59","slug":"mediating-historical-texts-through-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/2012\/03\/15\/mediating-historical-texts-through-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediating historical texts through print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found Foy&#8217;s discussion of the mediating and remediating effect of print. Two quotes in prticular struck me. First: &#8220;The brief historical and critical survey of the effect of print on Anglo-Saxon writing presented above extends Mitchell&#8217;s question and ponders how well the medium of print as a whole suits the early medieval form, function and cultural meaning of Anglo-Sacon discourse.&#8221; pg 20. This resonates with me after hearing a talk on the use of &#8220;traditional&#8221; (dare i say western) historical methods to include the Haitia Revolution into discourse on other 18th century revolutions. I was frustrated in that talk that we were not asking the right questions, and Foy&#8217;s text shows in a really engaging way that being aware of the mediating effects of print allows us to ask new and important questions of the medieval texts we study.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The second qute is quite lengthy, the first full paragraph on that same page. I found it very interesting to consider in concrete terms the ways in which print mediates (re)production, reading and interpretation of medieval texts&#8230;concrete ways like omissions, deletions, font style and even reconstructing endings eg the tapestry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found Foy&#8217;s discussion of the mediating and remediating effect of print. Two quotes in prticular struck me. First: &#8220;The brief historical and critical survey of the effect of print on Anglo-Saxon writing presented above extends Mitchell&#8217;s question and ponders how well the medium of print as a whole suits the early medieval form, function&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-tools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}