Byzantine scholia on historians and the literature of marginalia: reading and writing practices in the margins of medieval Greek manuscripts Ghent University
The margins of medieval Greek manuscripts are often filled with annotations of all sorts, from systematic commentaries to occasional reactions of readers. This project aims to study Byzantine marginal texts in all their facets: the material features, the literary form and the cultural circumstances in which they were written. Byzantine scholia are triggered by the main text and at the same time loaded with the intentions of annotators, which ...