Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books
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Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books

Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation

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Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books

Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. Note on Transcription Policy
  12. Introduction
  13. 1 Family Matters: The Roberts Family of Willesden
  14. 2 Private Faces in Public Places
  15. 3 Devotional Reading in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII
  16. 4 Out of the Cloister, Out of the Family
  17. 5 Books and Their Uses
  18. 6 Devotional Reading in the Reigns of Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I
  19. Conclusion Newly Reformed Readers?
  20. Postscript After the Family: The Manuscripts’ Later Histories
  21. Appendices
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
  24. General Index