Author : Kathryn James
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300254350
Book Description
This richly illustrated 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. Offering a technical introduction to the handwriting of the period, case studies tracing the significance of manuscript to British cultural identity, and exercises to practice reading and transcription, the book opens the study of early modern English manuscript to a new generation of students and scholars.