Alexandra Nowosiad

I examine the Renaissance reception of late medieval poetic texts including Jorge Manrique’s Coplas a la muerte de su padre through various forms of rewriting, such as glosses, sequels and anthologies, and also the material transformations of these texts in print - what Roger Chartier calls “typographical transformations”. My thesis thus combines an exploration of literary rewritings for and by sixteenth-century readers with an awareness of the book as a material object, whose form carries meaning(s) and affects those of the text it transmits.