The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain by David Rundle

The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain by David Rundle

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.

'… an extremely important addition to the growing scholarship on medieval/Renaissance periodizationAnd it is a champion for the value of manuscript studies and paleography in the pursuit of literary history.' Mimi Ensley, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies

David Rundle is Lecturer in Latin and Manuscript Studies at the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent. His previous publications include, as co-author with Ralph Hanna, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts, up to c. 1600, in Christ Church, Oxford (2017).

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ISBN 13	9781316644201
ISBN 10	1316644200
Title	The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain
Author	David Rundle
Series	Cambridge Studies In Palaeography And Codicology
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2021-03-18
Number of pages	378
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