Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture
Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture

Author: John N. King

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-10-12

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 1139460692

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This book was first published in 2006. Second only to the Bible and Book of Common Prayer, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, known as the Book of Martyrs, was the most influential book published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The most complex and best-illustrated English book of its time, it recounted in detail the experiences of hundreds of people who were burned alive for their religious beliefs. John N. King offers the most comprehensive investigation yet of the compilation, printing, publication, illustration, and reception of the Book of Martyrs. He charts its reception across different editions by learned and unlearned, sympathetic and antagonistic readers. The many illustrations included here introduce readers to the visual features of early printed books and general printing practices both in England and continental Europe, and enhance this important contribution to early modern literary studies, cultural and religious history, and the history of the Book.

The Life and Works of John Heywood
The Life and Works of John Heywood

Author: Robert W. Bolwell

Publisher: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature

Published: 1921

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Follows the life of John Heywood during the 16th century from his early life, to court entertainer, Catholic exile, and his dramatic and non-dramatic works.

The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557
The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557

Author: Peter W. M. Blayney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 1559

ISBN-13: 1107512409

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This major, revisionist reference work explains for the first time how the Stationers' Company acquired both a charter and a nationwide monopoly of printing. In the most detailed and comprehensive investigation of the London book trade in any period, Peter Blayney systematically documents the story from 1501, when printing first established permanent roots inside the City boundaries, until the Stationers' Company was incorporated by royal charter in 1557. Having exhaustively re-examined original sources and scoured numerous archives unexplored by others in the field, Blayney radically revises accepted beliefs about such matters as the scale of native production versus importation, privileges and patents, and the regulation of printing by the Church, Crown and City. His persistent focus on individuals - most notably the families, rivals and successors of Richard Pynson, John Rastell and Robert Redman - keeps this study firmly grounded in the vivid lives and careers of early Tudor Londoners.

Medieval Religion and Technology
Medieval Religion and Technology

Author: Lynn White

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-06-14

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0520378075

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This collection of nineteen essays, their previous publication dates scattered over a long career, is designed to indicate the velocity and variety of the inventiveness visible in medieval engineering and also to explore the relation of technology to the values of western medieval culture. During the Middle Ages, values and the motivations springing from them—even those underlying many activities that to us today seem purely secular—were often expressed in religious presuppositions. Hence this book's title. The conceptual unity of the collection is brought forth in the author's Introduction, "The Study of Medieval Technology, 1924–1974: Personal Reflections." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978 and reissued as a paperback in 1986.

Medieval Religion and Technology
Medieval Religion and Technology

Author: Lynn Townsend White

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1978-01-01

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780520035669

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Essays fra 1940-1975, med udgangspunkt i middelalderens teknologiske frembringelser, og videnskabsmænd.