Description: An engaging, accessible introduction to reading and understanding early modern English manuscripts
Review Quotes: "[This book's] accessible and elegant descriptions of the practicalities of everyday writing and material culture in early modern England will educate students and remind scholars for generations to come."--David Scott Gehring, Journal of British Studies
"Kathryn James's introduction to [textual artifacts written in English between 1500-1800], EnglishPaleography and Manuscript Culture, is a wonder."--Mark Alan Mattes, Toward an Archeology of Manuscripts "This is a superb book--and an essential one. There is no better way to approach the fascinating diversity of English Renaissance manuscripts than this beautifully illustrated volume. Read and reread it."--Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania