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Scribal culture is a category for books that explore how handwritten texts were created, transmitted, and used in societies where manuscripts were the primary medium. Works in this genre examine the people and institutions behind texts—scribes, scriptoria, monasteries, courts, schools, and workshops—the materials and techniques of writing (papyrus, parchment, paper, inks, scripts), and the processes of copying, compilation, commentary, correction, and marginalia. Topics include paleography and codicology; authorship, authority, and canon formation; literacy, education, and patronage; legal and religious record-keeping; and the social, economic, and political roles of writing. Spanning the ancient to early modern periods across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas, these books often trace transitions between oral, manuscript, and print cultures to show how knowledge was preserved, standardized, and reshaped.

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