Marginal Glossae

The Smith­field Dec­retals are cur­rently pre­served in the British Library.

I want to cross over to the other track, for a moment to think about the lan­guage of law and margins so as to provide a few “crossovers” for our topics.

Because what is at stake is too much: pos­session, property, ownership.

So, in this first game, there is some­thing easy to do.

These games intend to foster lit­erary cre­ativity along with sound scholarship.

At the center of the debates, the lin­guistic expres­sions that mark the pos­si­bility of a fictio legis or legal fiction.

“In Tabula Picta Marta Madero turns to the extensive glosses and com­men­taries that medieval jurists ded­i­cated to the above ques­tions when artic­u­lating a notion of intel­lectual and artistic property rad­i­cally dif­ferent from our own.

Derrida was fre­quently inter­ested in mar­ginal writing, as we can see in La gram­ma­tologie, Marges de la Philosophie, or, of course, the infi­nitely labyrinthine Glas. None of these inter­ven­tions can be read devoid of their physical, material aspect.

The cog­nitive intu­ition of the impor­tance of the margin in the process of studying texts, empir­i­cally demon­strated by psy­chol­o­gists and ped­a­gogues cited in the attached article, explains the reasons why the margin of books is a coveted space.

From: Gille Lev­enson, Matthias.