Women’s Writings and Manuscript Culture in Sighvatur Grímsson | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

The topic of this postulation is composition and scribal culture in the period of print. Its initial segment investigates the thriving grant of post-medieval scribal culture in Europe and past in the course of the last 25-30 years, just as ongoing patterns and turns in the historiography of printing and of proficiency. These examinations put forth a solid defense for an extreme amendment of how these crucial social wonders ought to be seen. As a piece of the alleged social turn and postmodernist revisionism of the 1980s and 1990s, the new pattern has been to dismiss the divisions of original copy versus print and of education versus ignorance for increasingly uncertain and complex pictures where numerous media and methods of transmission and gathering exist together and interface with one another. The second piece of the theory manages artistic culture in nineteenth-century Iceland both the general system of the creation, scattering and utilization of writings, and the individual instance of the rancher, angler and copyist Sighvatur Grímsson (1840-1930) and his social environment. Focussing on Sighvatur's life somewhere in the range of 1840 and 1873, the proposal displays a contention about the capacity of the scribal medium inside a poor, provincial, and de-regulated society.