Kentish book culture : writers, archives, libraries and sociability, 1400-1660 / Claire Bartram (ed).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bartram, Claire, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Social aspects--England--Kent--History.

Books and reading.

Private libraries--England--Kent--History--1400-1600.

Private libraries.

Private libraries--England--Kent--History--17th century.

Authorship--History.

Authorship.

Books--Social aspects--England--Kent--History--1450-1600.

Books.

Books--Social aspects--England--Kent--History--17th century.

History.

Books and reading--Social aspects.

Kent (England)--Intellectual life.

Kent (England).

Intellectual life.

England--Kent.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2020]

Contents:

Writing the town in mid fifteenth-century Sandwich: the contribution of John Serle, Common Clerk / Sheila sweetinburgh

"Wrytynge out of the playe booke": literacy and identity in the cinque ports and ancient towns in the sixteenth century / G.M. Draper

Reading, writing and the culture of books at Canterbury Cathedral Priory in the fifteenth century / Meriel connor

Book printing and protestant reform in reformation Canterbury, 1532-1556 / Stuart palmer

Literacy and cultural identity in the Dutch immigrant community of Sandwich, 1561-1650 / Jane Andrewes

Chronicling Dover: reconstructing provincial authorship in Elizabethan Kent / Claire Bartram

The tragedy of William Rogers of Cranbrook, Kent: the print-published afterlife of a godly apothecary / Lorraine Flisher

William Somner and his books: provenance evidence for the networks of a seventeenth-century Canterbury antiquarian / Sarah Griffin and David Shaw

"Quaere who hath coriats travels"? Henry Oxinden's book loans, 1647-58 / Sheila Hingley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781787074668

1787074668

OCLC:

1056200621

Publisher Number:

99987720287