Books and bookmen in early modern Britain : essays presented to James P. Carley / edited by James Willoughby and Jeremy Catto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, publisher.

Carley, James P., honouree.

Willoughby, James M. W., editor.

Catto, Jeremy, editor.

Series:

Papers in mediaeval studies ; 30.

Papers in mediaeval studies ; 30

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Libraries.

History.

Manuscripts.

Writing.

Publishers and publishing.

Literature publishing.

Authors and patrons.

Authors and readers.

Books and reading.

Great Britain--Intellectual life.

Great Britain.

Intellectual life.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History.

Authors and readers--Great Britain--History.

Authors and patrons--Great Britain--History.

Literature publishing--Great Britain--History.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History.

Printing--Great Britain--History.

Printing.

Writing--Great Britain--History.

Manuscripts--Great Britain--History.

Libraries--Great Britain--History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [2018]

Language Note:

Text chiefly in English; some text in Latin.

Summary:

This gathering of eighteen essays explores a period in Britain when the world of letters was brought under harness by the political centre as it had never been before or has been since. The importance of royal patronage for authors and printers alike is the subject of several of these studies; others are concerned with the dangers of unorthodox reading in Tudor England. The break-up of monastic libraries is another theme, as witnessed not only in England but also by observers in the Low Countries and Italy. Also included are studies on the post-dissolution movement of medieval books into the universities and into royal and aristocratic collections, aspects of female reading, verse composition, and the act and art of writing by hand, with some editions of hitherto unprinted texts.00Gathered from different corners of the field of book history, these studies share the common aim of honouring the contribution of James P. Carley. While known chiefly for his work on Tudor bibliographers, on the survival of medieval books in post-dissolution England and the foundation of the royal library, his interests extend to include monastic history and the Arthurian tradition. In all his work he has shown how close readings in the history of the book can open a window on an entire landscape and provide answers where other modes of historical enquiry fall short. These essays seek to honour his achievement by offering close readings of their own.

Contents:

Introduction / James Willoughby

Laudatio / Martyn Percy

James Carley : an appreciation / Diarmaid Macculloch

John Stevens and the Gesta Henrici Quinti / Jeremy Catto

The playpen : reform, experimentation and the memory of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester in the registry of the University of Oxford / David Rundle

Visionary women and their books in the library of the Brethren of Syon / Vincent Gillespie

Sebastian Brant's Shyp of folys at the accession of Henry VIII / Mark Rankin

Wolsey's praises : the Henrician royal manuscript presentation, Ianus / David R. Carlson

Commemorating Anne Boleyn's 1533 entry into London : John Leland and Nicholas Udall's Versis and dities made at the coronation of quene Anne / Ágnes Juhász-Ormsby

Cardinal Marcello Cervini (1̮501-1555) and English libraries / James Willoughby

English books in Flanders? New light on John Bale's 'Lamentable spoyle' / Paule Nelles

Cataloguing Wyclif : the contribution of John Bale / Anne Hudson

Books of Italian spirituali in Tudor England / M. Anne Overell

Changing worlds : contextualizing Elis Gruffydd's Welsh miscellany / Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan

What lies beneath : the weary scribal hand of Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 6̮15 / Ann Dooley

The after-life of a late fourteenth-century sermon collection in early modern England / Susan Powell

The manuscript library of Lord William Howard of Naworth (1̮563-1640) / Richard Ovenden

University street and the stationers of sixteenth-century Cambridge / Elisabeth Leedham-Green

Such a company of fellows and scholars : Roger Ascham's picture of humanism at St John's College, Cambridge / Richard Sex

A mélange of words and documents : notes on some seventeenth-century orientalists / Joanna Weinberg

A late seventeenth-century Englishwoman and her history books / Daniel Woolf

A bibliography of the writings of James Carley / Ann M. Hutchison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.

Other Format:

Books and bookmen in early modern Britain.:

ISBN:

9780888448309

0888448309

9781771103992

177110399X

OCLC:

1079257528

Publisher Number:

99979293099