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Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books: Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation by Margaret Connolly (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, 1470-1585, spanning the reigns of Edward IV to Elizabeth I. Members of the Tudor gentry family who owned these manuscripts had properties in Willesden and professional affiliations in London. These men marked the leaves of their books with signs of use, allowing their engagement with the texts contained there to be reconstructed. Through detailed research, Margaret Connolly reveals the various uses of these old books: as a repository for family records; as a place to preserve other texts of a favourite or important nature; as a source of practical information for the household; and as a professional manual for the practising lawyer. Investigation of these family-owned books 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.

Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books 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

About Margaret Connolly (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

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).

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.

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9781108445528

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1108445527

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Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books: Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation by Margaret Connolly (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Author

Margaret Connolly (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

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Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology

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Cambridge University Press

Year published

2022-06-23

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332

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Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books Margaret Connolly (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books by Margaret Connolly (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

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Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books Summary

Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books: Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation by Margaret Connolly (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

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About Margaret Connolly (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

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