{"id":180,"date":"2022-04-18T21:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T01:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/marginalization\/?page_id=180"},"modified":"2022-07-06T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:48:53","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/marginalization\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

The word marginalization<\/em>, despite its many uses, originally referred to putting something on the margins of a page. In the Middle Ages, marginalia<\/em> served as a means to highlight, illustrate, or explain something toward the center of a page, just as footnotes, headers, and footers do for us today. Marginalia might also include doodles, pen tests, or simple notes written on a convenient spot.<\/p>\n

This site, however, investigates ways in which medieval manuscripts illuminate marginalization in the modern sense of the word. In some cases, manuscripts allow us to see how marginalization worked in the Middle Ages, as medieval producers of texts wrote people out of their histories. In other cases, we see how collectors preserved manuscripts in ways that marginalize people who had once held more central roles in their societies. The following manuscripts are examined:<\/p>\n