Genetic indeterminacy
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Medieval manuscripts are books. A book is a written artefact. What is written is the opposite of what is spoken, which is oral. Writing is about literacy, speaking is about orality. Therefore, a book is a literate object, anything spoken is an object of orality. That's a neat distinction. And it's wrong.
A medieval manuscript is a genetic indeterminacy. …
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