Reading the margins of the early modern Bible / Ezra Horbury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horbury, Ezra, author.

Series:

British Academy monographs

British Academy Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Reading.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : British Academy, 2024.

Summary:

Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible presents a new understanding of how notes in the margins of the Bible were read in early modernity. Horbury investigates the creative and surprising ways readers engaged with these margins, resisting narratives that present them as dangerous and seditious.

Contents:

Introduction

1: Directing Readers

2: Editors as Readers

3: Clerical Readers

4: Catholic Readers

5: Literary Readers

Coda

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC:

1461995997