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

Table des matières

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.

A propos de l'auteur

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).

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Margaret Connolly, Margaret (University of St Andrews Connolly, Connolly Margaret
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781108445528
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44552-8
• Pages: 332
• Thème: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Antiquités; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Journalisme; London, Greater London, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, History and Archaeology