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Streetprint Manila is a research project that is part of a larger research endeavour called “Six Continents and Between”. Initiated by Prof. Gary Kelly of the University of Alberta, 6CAB seeks to investigate popular print culture across various geographical, sociocultural, and ethnolinguistic contexts. More specifically, it aims to look at reading patterns and preferences of the Filipino Everyman, or those whom we would largely consider members of the “masa” class.
The content of such texts mostly deal about the lives of monarchs or warriors. These romances were typically set in faraway European kingdoms or places, and set during ancient or medieval times. Similar with today’s romance novels, these metrical romances tackled themes of love and romance, courtly life, religious beliefs or struggles (especially between Christians and Muslims), and the fantastic.
