TY - BOOK ID - 85468452 TI - The Renaissance reform of the book and Britain : the English Quattrocento PY - 2019 SN - 1108148999 1108147801 1107193435 1108148085 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Writing KW - Books and reading KW - Written communication KW - Scribes KW - Paleography. KW - Renaissance KW - Humanism KW - Philosophy KW - Classical education KW - Classical philology KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Revival of letters KW - Civilization KW - History, Modern KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Civilization, Modern KW - Middle Ages KW - Handwriting KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Diplomatics KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts KW - Manuscripts KW - Copyists KW - Written discourse KW - Written language KW - Communication KW - Discourse analysis KW - Language and languages KW - Visual communication KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Choice of books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literature KW - Reading, Choice of KW - Reading and books KW - Reading habits KW - Reading public KW - Reading KW - Reading interests KW - Reading promotion KW - Chirography KW - Ciphers KW - Penmanship KW - History KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85468452 AB - 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. ER -