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English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800 (Hardcover)
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English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800 (Hardcover)
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An engaging, accessible introduction to reading and understanding
early modern English manuscripts This engaging book provides an
essential introduction to the manuscript in early modern England.
From birth to death, parish record to probate inventory, writing
framed the lives of the early modern English. The book offers a
detailed technical introduction to the handwriting of the period,
from “secretary hand” through the “copperplate” that
defined the early British Empire. Case studies trace the
significance of manuscript to British cultural identity, exploring
the intersections of manuscript and print, the roles of manuscript
in the bureaucracy of the early modern state, and the complex
practices surrounding manuscript in the lives of early modern
readers and writers. Exercises offer the opportunity to practice
reading and transcription, pointing to examples ranging from John
Lydgate through William Wordsworth. Richly illustrated and drawing
extensively on Yale University collections, this book opens the
study of early modern English manuscript to a new generation of
students and scholars. Distributed for the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library
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