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Marking Readers in Renaissance England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9800932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Evenden (Brunel University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 509 |
| Pages | 956-958 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cep201 |
| OpenAlex | W2056380330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
When I agreed to write this review, the review editor wryly stated that he would send me a copy for review, so long as I didn’t write in the margins. Although in jest, this exchange goes some way to identifying one of the central points of Sherman's study: how Renaissance readers perceived the pages of books in a very different way from how we look at them today. In the modern era we have been taught for generations not to write on borrowed books. We are often loath to write on those we own, since we have an acute awareness of the high cost of books (academic books in particular), which often leaves us reluctant to write in them; we fear any internal markings will devalue the book. In part, it is the potential for the book to be sold on, after we no longer need it, that makes us want to leave the pages pristine; it is worth more on the second-hand market if we have left well alone. Similarly, we tend to feel that the book just looks better without a wealth of notes inside; we respect its white spaces
Art history · Media studies · Sociology · The Renaissance · White (mutation · Chemistry · Classics · History · Renaissance Literature and Culture
Apothecaries' Cornets
Casebooks in Early Modern England
“Thy unvalued Booke”
Richard Topcliffe e a Cultura Livreira Clandestina do Catolicismo Elisabetano
Non-compliant Reading and Annotating in the Ruthenian Reformation
Marginalia, commonplaces, and correspondence
M ontaigne, Sir Ralph B ankes and other E nglish readers of the E ssais
Paratexts and pornographic potential in seventeenth-century anatomy books
Precept upon precept’
Popularizing economics
Fifteen ways of looking at a pointing gesture
Novohispanos sinistrorsos? Apuntes bibliográficos sobre el estudio del hebreo en la América Latina de la Edad Moderna
Cabinet Work
Living with the Bible in post-Reformation England
Edified by the Margent
Katherine Parr's Giftbooks, Henry VIII's Marginalia, and the Display of Royal Power and Piety
Competing Prose Psalters and Their Elizabethan Readers
The ‘Impartiality’ of Narcissus Luttrell's Reading Practices and Historical Writing, 1679–1710
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |