Journal of the Early Book Society Vol. 4 : For the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History

by Driver, Martha W.; Brown, Cynthia J.

• ISBN13: 9780944473566
• ISBN10: 0944473563
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction
Women and Book Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern France	1	(8)
Cynthia I. Brown
Martha W. Driver
Articles
Women and the Circulation of Books	9	(23)
Brigitte Buettner
Charlotte de Savoie's Library and Illuminators	32	(56)
Anne-Marie Legare
Family Values: Manuscripts as Gifts and Legacies among French Renaissance Women	88	(24)
Myra Dickman Orth
Christine de Pizan and the Book: Programs and Modes of Reading, Strategies for Publication	112	(15)
Jacqueline Cerouiglini-Toulet
The Patroness and the Poet: The Religious Allegories of Gabrielle de Bourbon and lean Bouchet	127	(23)
Jennifer Britnell
Les Alburns Poetiques de Marguerite D'Autriche: The Dynamics of an Early Renaissance Court	150	(22)
Jane H. M. Taylor
Grief, Rape, and Suicide as Consolation for the Queen: Ambivalent Images of Female Rulers in the Books of Anne de Bretagne	172	(30)
Cynthia I. Brown
Reinventing the Roman de la Rose for a Woman Reader: The Case of MS Douce 195	202	(26)
Deborah Mcgrady
Louise de Savoie, ``Bibliophile''	228	(31)
Mary Beth Winn
Nota Bene: Brief Notes on Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Highlighting Little-Known or Recently Uncovered Items or Related Issues
Two Fragments of Lydgate's Troy Book in the Bodleian Library	259	(8)
Linne R. Mooney
A New Manuscript Fragment of the Northern Homily Cycle	267	(14)
Oliver Pickering
Descriptive Reviews
Susan Powell
Triumphs of English: Henry Parker, Lord Morley, Translator to the Tudor Court	281	(3)
Susan Powell
Marie Axton
James P. Carley
Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho Lahamon	284	(4)
Carole Weinberg
Elizabeth I. Bryan
The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths	288	(4)
Susan Powell
A.S.G. Edwards
Vincent Gillespie
Ralph Hanna
Studies in the Harley Manuscript: the Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253	292	(4)
Jason O'Rourke
Susanna Fein
The Reformation and the Book	296	(8)
Brian Cummings
Jean-Francois Gilmont
Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors	304	(2)
Geoffrey Cantor
Andrew Hunter
An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII c. 1380-c. 1509	306	(3)
Malcolm Jones
Ann Eljenholm Nichols
Michael T. Orr
Kathleen L. Scott
Lynda Dennison
An introduction to the Canterbury Tales: Reading, Fiction, Context	309	(2)
Simon Horobin
Helen Phillips
Notes on Libraries and Collections
The Chapin Library	311	(2)
Meradith Mcmunn
Innerpeffray Library	313	(2)
Margaret Connolly
Penn State University Library	315	(2)
Jeanne Krochalis
Sandra Stelts
About the Authors	317