Long before we had a Bangsamoro Organic Law, before acronyms like BARMM, before peace panels and transitional authorities, Rizal was already writing Buayan into history—not as a rebellious periphery, ...

We can trace a direct line of descent from Coleridge’s marginalia to the social-media annotators who painstakingly embellish a copy of a friend’s favourite novel as a gift. But the ancestry of those ...

We all know medieval marginalia is full of some pretty sick snail fights. No one knows why, exactly, but there are hundreds of old drawings of snails in combat with knights in old manuscripts. The ...

Do you write in the margins of books? Have you borrowed a book from a friend and curiously read any thoughts they penned in the margins? Have you written notes or underlined passages in religious ...

Unlikely as it may sound, the study of such annotations is a recognized academic specialty, albeit an arcane one. There’s even a word for them, “marginalia,” coined by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

The marginalia to Ben Jonson's personal copy of the 1619 Scriverius edition of Martial's epigrams display a recurring interest in the most scabrous elements of Roman satirical discourse, including ...