| Description |
xiv, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: 2004. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Script, print and history / Alexandra Walsham and Julia Crick -- 'Publication' before print : the case of Julian of Norwich / Felicity Riddy -- Printing, mass communication, and religious information : the Middle Ages and after / David d'Avray -- Print and pre-Reformation religion : the Benedictines and the press, c.1470-c.1550 / James G. Clark -- Law and text : legal authority and judicial accessibility in the late Middle Ages / Anthony Musson -- The art of the unprinted : transcription and English antiquity in the age of print / Julia Crick -- The authority of the Word : manuscript, print and the text of the Bible in seventeenth-century England / Scott Mandelbrote -- The functions of script in the speech community of a late medieval town, c.1300-1550 / Andrew Butcher -- The sound of print in early modern England : the broadside ballad as song / Christopher Marsh -- Communicating with authority : the uses of script, print and speech in Bristol, 1640-1714 / Jonathan Barry -- Preaching without speaking : script, print and religious dissent / Alexandra Walsham -- Publish and perish : the scribal culture of Marian martyrs / Thomas S. Freeman -- Print, persecution and polemic : Thomas Edwards' Gangraena (1646) and Civil War sectarianism / Ann Hughes -- Epilogue / Margaret Aston. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Printing -- England -- History.
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Manuscripts -- England -- History.
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Transmission of texts.
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Communication -- Religious aspects.
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Communication -- Political aspects.
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England -- Church history.
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England -- Intellectual life.
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| Added Author |
Crick, Julia C., 1963-
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Walsham, Alexandra, 1966-
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| ISBN |
9780521172707 (pbk.) |
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0521172705 (pbk.) |
| OCLC # |
620320887 |
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