swashford's earlymod [30 articles]

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<div>Between the end of the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century, what methods were used to monitor and control the increasing number of texts—from the early handwritten books to the later, printed volumes—that were being put into circulation?<br><br>In <i>The Order of Books<br><br>, Chartier examines the different systems required to regulate the world of writing through the centuries, from the registration of titles to the classification of works. The modern world has, he argues, directly inherited the products of this labor: ...

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Why did people choose the Reformation? What was in the evangelical teaching that excited, moved or persuaded them? Andrew Pettegree tackles these questions directly by re-examining the reasons that moved millions to this decisive and traumatic break with a shared Christian past. He charts the separation from family, friends, and workmates that adherence to the new faith often entailed and the new solidarities that emerged in their place. He explores the different media of conversion through which the Reformation message was communicated and the role of drama, sermons, ...

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Diane Watt sets aside the conventional hiatus between the medieval and early modern periods in her study of women's prophecy, following the female experience from medieval sainthood to radical Protestantism. The English women prophets and visionaries whose voices are recovered here all lived between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries and claimed, through the medium of trances and eucharistic piety, to speak for God. They include Margery Kempe and the medieval visionaries, Elizabeth Barton (the Holy Maid of Kent), the Reformation martyr Anne Askew and other godly women ...

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Includes chapter on Elizabeth Barton, Maid of Kent

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Thomas (English and Germanic studies, U. of Illinois at Chicago) describes the social and cultural connections between England and Central European Bohemia between the 14th and 17th centuries. He discusses representations of Bohemia in texts by English writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare and representations of England in writings by Czechs. He also ...

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This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, Duffy has written a new Preface reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period. From reviews of the first edition: “A magnificent scholarly achievement [and] a compelling read.”—Patricia Morrison, _Financial Times _“Deeply imaginative, movingly written, ...

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Copy of 1st edition in Soton library. 2nd edition available from Devon, Oxfordshire & Slough

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This volume presents a collection of essays with an overview of the century- and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557. In this time of change the manuscript culture of Chaucer's day was replaced by an ambience in which printed books would become the norm. This volume traces the transition and discerns patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand with particular emphasis on imports and links ...

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Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. But as Margaret Ferguson reveals in _Dido's Daughters_, this description is inadequate, because it fails to help us understand heated conflicts over literacy during the emergence of print culture. The fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, she shows, were a contentious era of transition from ...

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Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of a wide range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. Heidi Brayman Hackel argues for a history of reading centered on the traces left by merchants and maidens, gentlewomen and servants, adolescents and matrons - precisely those readers whose entry into the print marketplace provoked debate and changed the definition of literacy. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both the singular 'ideal' reader of literary theory and the elite male reader ...

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The author identifies and examines the books that appear to have been published, at least in part, for an English-speaking female audience during the Renaissance. Detailed bibliographic lists include not only books specifically directed to women as a group, but also histories and biographies of famous women as well as books with subjects specifically within a woman's province, such as midwifery, cookery, and needlework. ...

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This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a paradoxical period when it was considered unfeminine to write and yet women were the authors of many poems, translations, conduct books, autobiographies, plays, pamphlets and other texts. Leading scholars examine the history of women's role in and access to literary culture, and the work of individual women writers. A unique chronology offers a woman-centered perspective on historical and literary events, and ...

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Includes Jacqueline Pearson, “Women Reading, Reading Women"

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A complete history of the economic, educational and religious life of three contrasting communities in Cambridgeshire from 1525 to 1700. This 'picture in the round' of all aspects of village life is the first to appear in English. The three villages concerned, Chippenham, Orwell and Willingham, had very difference economic settings. The economic section of the book traces the way in which the pattern of landholding changed over this period and the general and particular reasons for the changes which took ...

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Copy in Southampton library 942.6506

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In this exploration of the social context of reading and writing in pre-industrial England, David Cressy tackles important questions about the limits of participation in the mainstream of early modern society. To what extent could people at different social levels share in political, religious, literary and cultural life; how vital was the ability to read and write; and how widely distributed were these skills? Using a combination of humanist and social-scientific methods, Dr Cressy provides a detailed reconstruction of the profile ...

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Copy in Portsmouth library http://tinyurl.com/3kts79

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Includes discussion of female Lollards Copy in Hants library store

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<p><i>Books and Readers in Early Modern England</i> examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence--from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings--to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. <br /><br />Chapters in the volume cover oral, scribal, and print cultures, examining the emergence of the "public spheres" ...

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Copies in Manchester, Sheffield & Birmingham Unis

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This book provides readers with an account of the rivalry between the two kingdoms of Church and State between the years 1450 and 1660. <br><p>England inherited, from medieval times, two systems of authority: the Church, governed by Pope and Bishops; and the State, ruled by Monarch and Lords. However, from the late fourteenth century onwards, this division was increasingly challenged by the laity's insistence on their right to choose not only between different systems of Church government but also between different ...

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Copy in Hants library store Request 2nd ed (1987)

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Copies in Winchester, Bristol & Glos Unis

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This timely and fascinating historical study of Protestant women will increase the appreciation of their continuing struggle for acceptance within their churches and of their contribution to the success of the Protestant movement. An introductory chapter traces the origins of female subordination and exclusion from the preaching ministry, a practice that was reinforced by Protestant interpretations of Scripture. In essays contributed by recognized specialists, women's roles both in the early development of Protestant sects and in supporting established churches are examined, ...

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Copies in Bristol & Glos Unis

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`I have no hesitation in recommending the book to anyone who wishes to enlarge their knowledge of women's history.' - <i>New Statesman</i> ...

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Includes 'Stuart women's diaries and occasional memoirs' by Sara H Mendelson Copy in Southampton library at 301.412

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Book borrowed on ILL from Essex libraries

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A Master’s paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Library Science. This paper examines book ownership by women in the medieval and early modern periods in Europe. The primary aim of this paper is to synthesize the diverse and fragmentary scholarship on women book collectors in an accessible single source. The secondary aim is ...

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Available online at http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2707.pdf

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This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which ...

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Copy in Southampton Library

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Women frequently predominated among the recipients of poor relief in England, 1550-1700, the result of economic, demographic, and cultural factors. Less often observed is the participation of women as public employees in dispensing relief. This arrangement explains some of the weaknesses as well as the strengths of English poor relief. Moreover, the lives of these women implicitly challenge our modern assumptions and suggest that the dichotomy between domestic and public did not apply. Excluded from politics and power, women of the ...

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Copy in Soton Libraries (PWD & COB ST)

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When Mary Tudor became queen of England, the succession of a woman to the throne horrified many, including the Protestant reformer John Knox. His blistering condemnation of female rule, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, was followed in print by a series of pamphlets that echoed and expanded his argument that female rule was unnatural, unlawful, and contrary to scripture. In her own variation on this "monstrous regiment," Sharon Jansen contributes to the debate about ...

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Copy in Uni of Winchester http://tinyurl.com/2eq7dy