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By Tatjana Silec,R. Chai-Elsholz,L. Carruthers,Raeleen Chai-Elsholz,Leo Carruthers

Witnesses to the disappearance of a textual content, palimpsest manuscripts endure the marks in their personal genesis, with their unique inscription rubbed out and written over at the related parchment. This assortment explores analogies of erasure and rewriting saw in editorial and literary practices underlying the creation of texts from medieval England.

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