Communities of Print

Rosamund Oates, PhD (2004, University of York) is a Reader in Early Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published widely on the English Reformation, with particular interest in preaching and reading history, including Moderate Radical: Tobie Matthew and the English Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2018). Jessica G. Purdy is a PhD candidate in Early Modern and Book History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has a particular interest in the history of reading in the Tudor and Stuart periods.

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Notes on Contributors


Introduction


 Rosamund Oates and Jessica G. Purdy





Part 1: Networks of Books


1 Selling Luther: Printing Counterfeits in Reformation Augsburg


 Drew B. Thomas





2 Market Realities: Christopher Plantin’s International Networks in an Ever-Changing World


 Julianne Simpson





3 ‘Far Off from the Well’s Head’: The Production and Circulation of Books in Early Modern Yorkshire


 Rosamund Oates





4 ‘For the Edification of the Common People’: Humphrey Chetham’s Parish Libraries


 Jessica G. Purdy





Part 2: Reading Together


5 Friars and Friends: Books as Private or Shared Belongings in Early Modern Religious Communities


 Flavia Bruni





6 Teachers of Christ’s Church: Protestant Ministers as Readers of the Church Fathers in the Dutch Golden Age


 Forrest C. Strickland





7 Print, Friendship and Voluntary Devotional Communities in North West England, c. 1660–c. 1730


 Michael A.L. Smith





Part 3: Different Readers


8 Rural Readings of Sacred History: The Nuremberg Chronicle and Its Lancashire Readers


 Nina Adamova





9 Reading Medieval Wales: David Powel’s History of Cambria (1584) and Its Readers


 Kathryn Hurlock





10 Poetic Failure, Communal Memory, and George Herbert’s Outlandish Proverbs


 Catherine Evans





11 Micrography in Later Stuart Britain: Curious Spectacles and Political Emblems


 Tim Somers





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