The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700Julia C. Crick, Alexandra Walsham This volume builds upon the widening interest in the connections between culture and communication in medieval and early modern Europe. Focusing on England, it takes a critical look at the scholarly paradigm of the shift from script to print, exploring the possibilities and limitations of these media as vehicles of information and meaning. The essays examine how pen and the press were used in the spheres of religion, law, scholarship, and politics. They assess scribal activity both before and after the advent of printing, illuminating its role in recording and transmitting polemical, literary, antiquarian and utilitarian texts. They also investigate script and print in relation to the spoken word, emphasising the constant interaction and symbiosis of these three media. In sum, this collection helped to refine the boundaries between cultures of speech, manuscript and print, and to reconsider the historical fissures which they have come to represent. |
Contents
the case of Julian of Norwich | 29 |
the Benedictines | 71 |
legal authority and judicial accessibility in | 95 |
transcription and English | 116 |
The functions of script in the speech community of a late | 157 |
the uses of script print | 191 |
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Abbey Authorised Version authority ballads Benedictine Bible Bristol Cambridge Canterbury Cathars CHBB Church circulated Clanchy Codex Codex Alexandrinus Coke collection communication contemporary copies court culture dissemination Early Modern England editions Edwards England English essay evidence example exemplar fifteenth century fourteenth Foxe friars Gangraena godly heresy History Ibid John John Dee John Foxe Julian of Norwich late medieval Latin letters Library Literacy Lollards London Love manuscript Margery Kempe Marian Marian martyrs martyrs medieval melody monastic monks oral Parliament pecia political popular preaching Presbyterian printed books printed texts printers prisoners Protestant Protestantism published readers Reformation religious Richard royal scholars scribal scribes script and print Scripture Selden sermons seventeenth sixteenth social Society speech St Albans statutes Studies surviving Syon Abbey Testament textual Thomas Titles of Honor tradition transcription translation treatises tune University of Exeter vernacular William writ writing written word
References to this book
Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England Gina Bloom No preview available - 2007 |