‎Marco Mostert, Carlo Tedeschi (eds)‎
‎Graffiti in Medieval and Early Modern Societies. Italy and Beyond‎

‎, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: xviii + 375, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:9 b/w, 103 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503625126.‎

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‎Summary Graffiti is increasingly being recognised as an important historical source that can provide first-hand information on the written cultures of past societies. This book presents a wide variety of approaches to the how and why of graffiti production in medieval and early modern societies. Geographically, the book ranges from Italy to Russia, by way of the insular and Nordic worlds, and beyond, to the Holy Land and early medieval Nubia. Attention is given to information which will lead to the development of the historical criticism of graffiti, including the best practices for photography. A bibliography of the publications on medieval graffiti which have come out since 2000 is hoped to further the development of future scholarship. While there is extensive scholarship on graffiti in classical Antiquity, other historical graffiti remains understudied. This volume provides an overview of studies on graffiti for medieval and early modern cultures as well as a platform for future research. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface By Way of an Introduction: Some Thoughts on Graffiti as a Historical Source CARLO TEDESCHI Graffiti, Margins, and Palimpsests V RONIQUE PLESCH At the Margins of Graffiti: 'Fixed' Writings in Pilgrimage Sites in the Holy Land CL MENT DUSSART and ESTELLE INGRAND-VARENNE Inscriptions and Graffiti from the Courtyard of the Armenian Monastery of Sts. James in Jerusalem KHACHIK HARUTYUNYAN Devotional Graffiti in Christian Nubia (Based on the Material from the So-Called North Church within the Monastery on Kom H in Dongala) ADAM ?AJTAR From the Pillar to the Page: Historic Graffiti in British Churches and Medieval Graphic Practice WENDY SCASE Memorial Graffiti and Libri vitae: An Intersection? LAURA PANI Graffiti and the History of the Italian Language: Some Case Studies from "Italia Mediana" ALICE DI COCCO Connections between the 'Global' and the 'Local': Exploring Marginality through Late Fourteenth-Century Graffiti near Verona GIULIA SACCOMANI Cavernae solertes inquisitores: Graffiti on a Sixteenth-Century Speleological Exploration in Martina Franca CRISTINA COMASIA ANCONA and ROBERTO ROTONDO Digital Photographic Reproduction Techniques for Studying Graffiti ROCCO D'ERRICO "Thorgrim Owns Me": Runic Graffiti of Lydvaloftet, a Medieval Farmhouse at Voss, Norway KRISTEL ZILMER The Place of Graffiti in the Graphic Environment of Medieval Rus JOS SCHAEKEN Graffiti in Medieval Written Culture and in the Graphosphere MARCO MOSTERT After Kraack and Lingens: An Additional Bibliography on Medieval Graffiti MARCO MOSTERT Notes on Contributors‎