Books and Readers in Early Modern England : Material Studies [1 ed.] 9780812204711, 9780812217940

Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies 9780812204711

Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to t

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Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England 9780226781723

In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces t

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Gender and Policing in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) 100930514X, 9781009305143

This book traces the beginnings of a shift from one model of gendered power to another. Over the course of the seventeen

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Books and Readers in the Early Church 9780300194340

This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of

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Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England 9780812203448

Based on a survey of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we

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Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England

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'Grossly material things': women and book production in early modern England 9780199651580, 9780191741654

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their p

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Domestic life and domestic tragedy in early modern England: The material life of the household 9781847791870

This book considers a range of printed and documentary evidence, the majority previously unpublished, for the way ordina

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Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 21) 9781843839422, 1843839423

Representing a history of drinking "from below", this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-ce

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Domestic Culture in Early Modern England (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 24) 9781783270415, 1783270411

A detailed study of the domestic life of the early modern, non-elite household This book is a detailed study of the dom

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