Description
Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.
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).
Reviews
'Overall, Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books offers a compelling case study of a kind of reading and class of readers ... it is well written, copiously documented, and should serve as a model to other researchers working in a similar vein.' Megan L. Cook, The Library
'... this book is an important contribution to our understanding of how and why books were read during the English Reformation.' Hilary Maddocks, Script & Print
Book Information
ISBN 9781108426770
Author Margaret Connolly
Format Hardback
Page Count 330
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 830g
Dimensions(mm) 253mm * 181mm * 20mm