Kentish Book Culture

This volume explores the writing practices and book collections of a range of individuals in early modern Kent, including the gentry and clergy and urban administrators. It brings together specialists in book history, literary scholars and social historians to explore the nature of authorship and the dynamics of the book market in the provinces.

Autorentext

Claire Bartram is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Inhalt

Introduction: Kentish Book Culture. Claire Bartram

Part I Textual Production, Archives and Libraries

1 Reading, Writing and the Culture of Books at Canterbury Cathedral Priory in the Fifteenth Century. Meriel Connor

2 Writing the Town in Mid-Fifteenth-Century Sandwich: The Contribution of John Serle, Common Clerk. Sheila Sweetinburgh

3 Chronicling Dover: Authorship, Archives and Audiences, c. 1580-1604. Claire Bartram

4 The Sinful Life and Woeful Death of William Rogers: Textual Legacies and Puritan Culture in 1630s West Kent. Lorraine Flisher

5 'Quaere who hath Coriats Travels?' Henry Oxinden's Book Loans, 16471658. Sheila Hingley

Part II Literate Identities, Networks and Sociability

6 Book Printing and Protestant Reform in Reformation Canterbury, 1532-1556. Stuart Palmer

7 'Wrytynge out of the playe booke': Literacy and Identity in the Cinque Ports and Ancient Towns in the Sixteenth Century. Gillian Draper

8 Literacy and Cultural Identity in the Dutch Immigrant Community of Sandwich, 1561-1650. Jane Andrewes

9 William Somner and his Books: Provenance Evidence for the Networks of a Seventeenth-Century Canterbury Antiquarian. Sarah Griffin and David Shaw <p