Abstract
This article explores early Greek type design (1490-1515) as a form of mobile identity reconstruction for Byzantine exiles living in Italy after the fall of constantinople. in examining the interplay between the technical and the cultural, i reveal how the rhetoric surrounding Greek type design, as well as the appearance of typefaces themselves, present textual and alphabetic materiality as revivifying access to a Greek past. in doing so, i approach these prefatory texts as more than repositories of evidence for the practices and procedures of early Greek print. instead, i illuminate their status as cultural and literary documents that recast Greek type design as a dynamic project of cultural reimagination.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 29-57 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources |
Volume | 44 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- Byzantine diaspora
- Greek alphabet
- Greek typography
- Incunabular printing
- Reception of Greek