Paratexts of the English bible, 1525-1611 / Debora Shuger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shuger, Debora K., 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paratext.

Bible--Versions.

Bible.

Physical Description:

xiii, 347 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

English bibles, from Tyndale's 1525 New Testament to the 1611 King James, feature calendars, woodcuts, maps, chronologies, prayers, philological glosses, inset historical essays, elaborate multi-page diagrams, single-leaf summaries of scripture, prefaces by eminent churchmen, doctrinal notes by leading theologians, a dialogue on predestination, a twelfth-century genealogy of Christ, a ninth-century Jewish chronicle-most widely available, given the hundreds of editions printed between those dates. This book explores this archive, but it also tracks its changes, because while biblical translations remain relatively stable over time, the paratexts cocooning a bible's first printing sometimes mutate or vanish in succeeding editions-and indeed sometimes they migrate to a competing bible. These paratexts, together with their revelatory print histories, disclose a picture of the English Reformation that differs in striking ways from the authorized version.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Tudor Theological Paratexts

2. Humanist Imprints, 1525-1553

3. Elizabethan First Editions

4. Of Chronologies and Cruxes

5. The Royal Printer's Tale, 1577 to 1611.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0192843575

9780192843579

OCLC:

1287076774

Publisher Number:

99992176267