Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible

Informationen zum Autor Dr Ezra Horbury is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of York. They received their PhD from the University of Cambridge and completed a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at University College London. They are the author of Prodigality in Early Modern Drama and have published articles on literature, theology, and transgender theory in journals including Harvard Theological Review, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Transgender Studies Quarterly. Klappentext Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible presents a new understanding of how notes in the margins of the Bible were read in early modernity. Horbury investigates the creative and surprising ways readers engaged with these margins, resisting narratives that present them as dangerous and seditious. Zusammenfassung Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible presents a new understanding of how notes in the margins of the Bible were read in early modernity. Horbury investigates the creative and surprising ways readers engaged with these margins, resisting narratives that present them as dangerous and seditious. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Directing Readers 2: Editors as Readers 3: Clerical Readers 4: Catholic Readers 5: Literary Readers Coda Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Ezra Horbury, Ezra (Lecturer in Renaissance Literature Horbury
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2024
• EAN: 9780197267677
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726767-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: British Academy Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Christianity, History of Religion, Literary studies: general, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600