Tudor Books and Readers Materiality and the Construction of Meaning

Name: Tudor Books and Readers Materiality and the Construction of Meaning
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ISBN: 9780521514941

ISBN-10: 0521514940

ISBN-13: 9780521514941

Edition: 2010

Authors: John N. King

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Book details

List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/21/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction




Prologue: the first years of the Tudor monarchy and the printing press




Book Format, Marketing, and the Reception of Books



The myth of the cheap quarto




English literary folios 1593-1623: studying shifts in format




Closing the books: the problematic printing of John Foxe's histories of Henry VII and Henry VIII in his Book of Martyrs (1570)




Print, Politics and Patronage



'This heavenly boke, more precyous than golde': legitimating print in early Tudor England




Authorial and editorial influence on luxury bookbinding styles in sixteenth-century England




Print in the time of parliament: 1560-1601 Cynthia




Reading and Religion



'The spider and the bee': the perils of printing for refutation in Tudor England




Reading the woodcuts in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs




Readers' marks and religious practice: Margaret Hoby's marginalia




Books in the bedchamber: religion, accounting, and the library of Richard Stonley



Select bibliography


Index.