Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to ... - Roger Chartier - Google Books

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The fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe. Stone, wood, cloth, parchment, and paper all provided media onto which writing was inscribed as a way to ward off loss. And the task was not easy in a world in which writing could be…