Early Modern English Marginalia

Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts - printed, handwritten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in - offer a crazy quilt composed of fragments of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and manuscripts over often lengthy periods of time.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. "Cast me not away from thy face": Marginal Reflections on the English Reformation
3. Articles of Assent: Clergymen's subscribed copies of the Thirty--‐Nine Articles of the Church of England
4. Plus ça change: Renaissance Images in Medieval Books
5. Managing Animals: Sixteenth--‐Century Ecologies of Annotation
6. Studied for Redaction: Reading and Writing in the Works of John Higgins
7. Marginalia as Making: Robert Nicolson's Books
8. Marking Objects in Early Modern Books
9. Vide Supplementum: The Free Library of Philadelphia’s First Folio in Seventeenth--‐Century England
10. Anne Clifford’s Copy of John Selden’s Titles of Honor
11. Marital Marginalia: The Library of Thomas and Isabella Hervey
12. Reading Mathematics in the Seventeenth Century: Evidence from Robert Hooke’s Notes and Marginalia
13. Early Modern Marginalia and #earlymoderntwitter
14. Afterword

About the author

Katherine Acheson is a Professor of English Language and Literature and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo

Summary

Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts – printed, handwritten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in – offer a crazy quilt composed of fragments of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and manuscripts over often lengthy periods of time.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Acheson, Katherine (University of Waterloo) Acheson
• Assisted by: Katherine Acheson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2018
• EAN: 9780415418850
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41885-0
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Publishing industry and journalism, Publishing industry & book trade, Medieval style, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600