A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts

Bringing together a broad range of casestudies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met theneeds of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period.

• Features essays illustrating the particular ways a manuscript and a printed book reflect the different emphases of an elite, private and an egalitarian, public culture, both of which account for the literary achievements of the Renaissance
• Includes wide-ranging essays, from printing the Gospels in Arabic to a contemporary reconceptualization of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
• Increases accessibility through a rubric organized around archival and manuscript studies; theprovenance of texts and the authority of editions; andstudies of genre, religion and literary history
• Announces the recovery of archival documents, whichin some instances are over four hundred years old
• Places translations of Milton's Latin, Greek, and Italian alongside the original texts to increase accessibility for a wide audience of students and scholars
• Provides an invaluable platform for highlighting on-going attention to the history of the book and its corollary subjects of reading and writing practices in the 1500s and 1600s

Nyckelord: Manuscript studies, printed books, early modern readers, John Milton, Christopher Milton, the Gospels, printing the Gospels, Bartholomew Fair, Johnson, Milton’s letters, Andrew Marvell, first Miltonists, reading literature, Marston, Behn, literary history, Reliquiae Baxterianae, 17^th century British literature, English Civil War, the Commonwealth, Protectorate, English Church, the State, Renaissance, Renaissance studies, literary biography, American founding fathers, early modern journalism, Shakespeare, printed books, history of the book, study of manuscripts, book production, early modern studies, book history, medieval manuscripts, Manuscript studies, printed books, early modern readers, John Milton, Christopher Milton, the Gospels, printing the Gospels, Bartholomew Fair, Johnson, Milton’s letters, Andrew Marvell, first Miltonists, reading literature, Marston, Behn, literary history, Reliquiae Baxterianae, 17^th century British literature, English Civil War, the Commonwealth, Protectorate, English Church, the State, Renaissance, Renaissance studies, literary biography, American founding fathers, early modern journalism, Shakespeare, printed books, history of the book, study of manuscripts, book production, early modern studies, book history, medieval manuscripts, Renaissance English Literature