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Author Connolly, Margaret, 1965- author

Title Sixteenth-century readers, fifteenth-century books : continuities of reading in the English reformation / Margaret Connolly, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cambridge studies in palaeography and codicology
Cambridge studies in palaeography and codicology.
Contents Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Note on Transcription Policy; 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; Appendices
Appendix I Timeline of Key Events During the Lifetimes of Thomas and Edmund RobertsAppendix II Summary List of Contents of the Manuscripts Owned by the Roberts Family; Appendix III Manuscripts and Printed Books of Uncertain Association; Appendix IV Other Families Named Roberts; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books; General Index
Summary Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2019)
Subject Roberts, Thomas, 1470-1542 -- Books and reading
Roberts, Edmund, 1520-1585 -- Books and reading
Roberts, Thomas, 1470-1542 -- Library -- Marginal notes
Roberts, Edmund, 1520-1585 -- Library -- Marginal notes
Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century
Manuscripts, Medieval -- England
Gentry -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
Books and reading
Libraries
Manuscripts, Medieval
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108616966
1108616968
9781108652421
1108652425