TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gómez-Bravo,Ana M.
TI  - Textual agency: writing culture and social networks in fifteenth-century Spain 
T2  - Toronto Iberic
SN  - 9781442667518
AV  - Z173 .T498 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Incunabula
KW  - Spain
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - Paratext
KW  - History
KW  - Paper
KW  - Writing materials and instruments
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Spanish literature
KW  - To 1500
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - 15th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction --; Poetry, bureaucracy, and the social order --; Escribano culture and socio-professional contiguity --; Pervasive papers --; The hands have it --; Papers unite --; Paper politics --; Books as memory --; Arranging the compilation --; The book of fragments --; Conclusion --; Notes --; References --; Index; 2; b
N2  - Annotation; Textual Agency examines the massive proliferation of poetic texts in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing on the important yet little-known cancionero poetry - the largest poetic corpus of the European Middle Ages. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo situates this cultural production within its social, political, and material contexts. She places the different forms of document production fostered by a shifting political and urban model alongside the rise in literacy and access to reading materials and spaces. At the core of the book lies an examination of both the materials of writing and how human agents used and transformed them, giving way to a textual agency that pertains not only to writers, but to the inscribed paper. Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation
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