The identity of the schoolbook as textual genre and as mediation of cultural construction of the educated citizenship.

This paper looks into the question of the identity of the schoolbook as a specific text genre in the context of classical and modern manualistics, contextualising the analysis within the framework of the culture of the traditional school and in the era of the digital revolution and from a historiographic and theoretical perspective. It also sets out the birth and early development of manualistics as an intellectual and academic field and its contributions to the definition of the textual identity of the schoolbook, and in the cultural construction of citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]