The Uses of Script and Print, 13001700 by Julia Crick (English) Hardcover Book

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This volume investigates written communication before and after the introduction of printing. Focusing on England, it considers the uses of script and print by various individuals, groups and communities in the spheres of religion, law, scholarship and politics, and makes an assessment of the impact of printing.

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This volume builds upon the widening interest in the connections between culture and communication in medieval and early modern Europe. Focusing on England, it takes a critical look at the scholarly paradigm of the shift from script to print, exploring the possibilities and limitations of these media as vehicles of information and meaning. The essays examine how pen and the press were used in the spheres of religion, law, scholarship, and politics. They assess scribal activity both before and after the advent of printing, illuminating its role in recording and transmitting polemical, literary, antiquarian and utilitarian texts. They also investigate script and print in relation to the spoken word, emphasising the constant interaction and symbiosis of these three media. In sum, this collection will help to refine the boundaries between cultures of speech, manuscript and print, and to reconsider the historical fissures which they have come to represent.

Author Biography

Julia Crick is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter. Alexandra Walsham is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Script, print and history Alexandra Walsham and Julia Crick; Part I. Script, Print and Late Medieval Religion: 2. Publication before print: the case of Julian of Norwich Felicity Riddy; 3. Printing, mass communication and religious reformation: the Middle Ages and after David d'Avray; 4. Print and pre-Reformation religion: the Benedictines and the press in early Tudor England James G. Clark; Part II. Script, Print and Textual Tradition: 5. Law and text: legal authority and judicial accessibility in the late Middle Ages Anthony Musson; 6. The art of the unprinted: transcription and English antiquity in the age of print Julia Crick; 7. The authority of the word: manuscript, print and the text of the Bible in seventeenth-century England Scott Mandelbrote; Part III. Script, Print and Speech: 8. The functions of script in the speech community of a late medieval town, c.1300–1550 Andrew Butcher; 9. The sound of print in early modern England: the broadside ballad as song Christopher Marsh; 10. Communicating with authority: the uses of script, print and speech in Bristol 1640–1714 Jonathan Barry; Part IV. Script, Print and Persecution: 11. Preaching without speaking: script, print and religious dissent Alexandra Walsham; 12. Publish and perish: the scribal culture of the Marian martyrs Thomas S. Freeman; 13. Print, persecution and polemic: Thomas Edwards' Gangraena (1646) and Civil War sectarianism Ann Hughes; 14. Epilogue Margaret Aston.

Review

'One of the ... pleasures it brings to light lies precisely in its use of details ... The essays collected here will do much to stimulate further work on the overlapping cultures of speech, manuscript and print.' H. R. Woudhuysen, University College London 'Cambridge University Press is here, as ever, incomparable as a producer of academic books.' CILIP Rare Books Group '... this stimulating collection can be warmly recommended for the range of topics it covers and the lively answers it offers to the many pressing questions raised.' History 'Many boundaries are fruitfully crossed in these essays. They bring together the Middle Ages and the early-modern period at the same time as ranging flexibly over manuscript and printed text and various forms of oral discourse. They look beyond London to regions and localities, and sometimes to continental contexts as well. They confront and explore what have been accepted as authoritative arguments about a number of issues ... and refine or sometimes refute them with recourse to fresh evidence and speculation. With its insights, questions, and comprehensively high standard of writing and scholarship, this is a valuable and illuminating collection.' The Library 'This collection is a stimulating and authoritative guide to the range of relevant and recent literature.' Southern History Society 'The Uses of Script and Print is a stimulating addition to recent debates.' Reformation 'It is an important compilation, not just for what the individual authors have to say, but also for the broader resonances of their ideas. ... a significant set of papers, and definitely a rewarding read.' The Heythrop Journal

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This volume investigates written communication before and after the introduction of printing in England.

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"...timely and provocative..." Seventeenth-Century News

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This volume investigates written communication before and after the introduction of printing in England.

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This volume investigates written communication before and after the introduction of printing. Focusing on England, it considers the uses of script and print by various individuals, groups and communities in the spheres of religion, law, scholarship and politics, and makes an assessment of the impact of printing.

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This volume investigates written communication before and after the introduction of printing. Focusing on England, it considers the uses of script and print by various individuals, groups and communities in the spheres of religion, law, scholarship and politics, and makes an assessment of the impact of printing.

Details ISBN0521810639 Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 0521810639 ISBN-13 9780521810630 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Julia Crick Birth 1966 Short Title USES OF SCRIPT & PRINT 1300 17 Author Alexandra Walsham Pages 314 DOI 10.1604/9780521810630 UK Release Date 2003-11-27 AU Release Date 2003-11-27 NZ Release Date 2003-11-27 Year 2003 Publication Date 2003-11-27 Alternative 9780521172707 DEWEY 002.09 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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