Tribble 1993

Tribble, Evelyn B. Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2003.

Introduction: Whose Text?

"I am concerned with books, the text embodied. More than embodied: dressed, bedecked, adorned -- with prefatory matter, illustrations, and most importantly, marginal notes."

"Modern editions which omit such accompanying matter in effect rewrite the text by effacing evidence of its collaborative nature, of the conversation between a text and its margins, of the play made possible by the space of the page." (1)

medieval period -- authority / auctor "always an other, located outside the writer and conferring authority from a historical distance" (2)