Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books - Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation

Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Family matters: the Roberts family of Willesden; 2. Private faces in public places; 3. Devotional reading in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII; 4. Out of the cloister, out of the family; 5. Books and their uses; 6. Devotional reading in the reigns of Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I; Conclusion: Newly reformed readers?; Postscript: after the family: the manuscripts' later histories; Appendix 1. Timeline of key events during the lifetimes of Thomas and Edmund Roberts; Appendix 2. Summary list of contents of manuscripts owned by the Roberts family; Appendix 3. Manuscripts and printed books of uncertain association; Appendix 4. Other families named Roberts; Bibliography; Index of manuscripts; General Index.

About the author

Margaret Connolly is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her previous publications include Insular Books: Vernacular manuscript miscellanies in late medieval Britain, edited with Raluca Radulescu (2015); The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist XIX: Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge (2009); Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England, edited with Linne Mooney (2008); and John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household (1998).

Summary

Investigating the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, and the members of the Tudor gentry family who owned them, reveals an unexpectedly strong interest in works of the past, and the continuing intellectual and domestic importance of medieval manuscripts in an age of print.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Connolly, Margaret (University of St Andrews Connolly, Connolly Margaret
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781108426770
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42677-0
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology; Cambridge Studies in Palaeogra; Cambridge Studies in Palaeogra; Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Palaeography (History Of Writing), Palaeography