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Unprinted: Reading and Meaning in Early Modern Iberia

Unprinted: Reading and Meaning in Early Modern Iberia

Bamford, Heather

Hardcover

Series: Toronto Iberic

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismSpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1487554028
ISBN13: 9781487554026
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.21 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

A careful investigation into the history and meaning of reading, Unprinted dives into the rich culture of unprinted manuscripts in early modern Iberia.


Spanish literature scholar Heather Bamford studies the meaning of reading and the activities it comprises through the aporia of texts whose principal point of contact was being left unprinted or never destined for the press. Early modern Spain was a period of burgeoning arts, the forced conversion and expulsion of Jews and Muslims, and the enslavement of North and sub-Saharan Africans, Turks from Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire, North African Muslims, and Moriscos (Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity). Each of these groups contributed to an Iberian history of reading.

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