Description: Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.
Brief description: Margaret Connolly is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her previous publications include Insular Books: Vernacular manuscript miscellanies in late medieval Britain, edited with Raluca Radulescu (2015); The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist XIX: Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge (2009); Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England, edited with Linne Mooney (2008); and John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household (1998).
Review Quotes: 'Overall, Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books offers a compelling case study of a kind of reading and class of readers ... it is well written, copiously documented, and should serve as a model to other researchers working in a similar vein.' Megan L. Cook, The Library