Used books marking readers in Renaissance England
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812203448
- ISBN: 0812220846 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780812220841 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 259 p. :) ill. ;
remote
Computer data.
electronic resource - Edition: 1st paperback ed.
- Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, c2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | OldControl:muse9780812203448 Multi-User |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-249) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | List of illustrations -- Preface -- Part 1: Of Marks And Methods -- 1: Introduction: Used books -- 2: Toward a history of the manicule -- 3: Reading the matriarchive -- Part 2: Reading And Religion -- 4: Book thus put in every vulgar hand: marking the Bible -- 5: Uncommon book of common prayer -- Part 3: Remarkable Readers -- 6: John Dee's Columbian encounter -- 7: Sir Julius Caesar's search engine -- Part 4: Renaissance Readers And Modern Collectors -- 8: Dirty books? attitudes toward readers' marks -- Afterword: Future of past readers -- List of abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index --Acknowledgments. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by Project Muse. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Renaissance -- England Marginalia -- England -- History -- 16th century Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century Multi-User |
Genre: | Electronic books. |