We’re still medieval, and it’s a good thing

The web of texts in a 11th-century manuscript containing the poetic works of the Roman poet Horace (main, central text) surrounded by explanations, clarifications and comments, not without some decorative elements to guide the reading (Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 88)

If Jacques Derrida’s famous dictum that ‘there is no outside text’ may…