| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
Early illustration in print: single leaves, block-books and their printed progeny -- Woodcuts in early English books: sources and circulation -- Wynkyn de worde and the title page -- Representations of saintly women in late medieval woodcuts -- Reconstructing social histories: reading images as historical documents -- Iconoclasm and reform: the survival of late medieval images and the printed book |
| Summary |
"Martha Driver here invites us to consider evidence for a new social history of book illustration as constructed from the study of the woodcut, principally as it was used in books printed in England by Wynkyn de Worde and his successors. Her central focus is on the physical evidence provided by illustrations in incunabula and early-sixteenth-century printed books. Among the subjects under consideration are reading and the development of literacy, and the central role of woodcuts in that process. In addition to promoting the self-education of their readers, illustrated printed books acted as agents of religious, social, and political change as the Middle Ages closed and the Reformation tightened its grip on western Europe. Religious devotion, marriage, work, and everyday life feature in the arresting images that illustrate the text."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Illustration of books -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Wood-engraving -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Illustration of books
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Wood-engraving
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Buchdruck
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Holzschnitt
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Illustration
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Illustraties.
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Houtsneden.
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England
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England
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
British Library.
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| ISBN |
9780712363549 |
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0712363548 |
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