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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 May 2019
      02 May 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108147804
      9781107193437
      9781316644201
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108147804
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.92kg, 362 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 380 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Printing and Publishing History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology (17)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Printing and Publishing History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology (17)
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    What has fifteenth-century England to do with the Renaissance? By challenging accepted notions of 'medieval' and 'early modern' David Rundle proposes a new understanding of English engagement with the Renaissance. He does so by focussing on one central element of the humanist agenda - the reform of the script and of the book more generally - to demonstrate a tradition of engagement from the 1430s into the early sixteenth century. Introducing a cast-list of scribes and collectors who are not only English and Italian but also Scottish, Dutch and German, this study sheds light on the cosmopolitanism central to the success of the humanist agenda. Questioning accepted narratives of the slow spread of the Renaissance from Italy to other parts of Europe, Rundle suggests new possibilities for the fields of manuscript studies and the study of Renaissance humanism.

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    ‘… an extremely important addition to the growing scholarship on medieval/Renaissance periodization. And it is a champion for the value of manuscript studies and paleography in the pursuit of literary history.’

    Mimi Ensley Source: Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies

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