This is a scholarly reference volume that reconstructs the reading and collecting habits of Tudor and early Stuart book owners through surviving book lists.
Editors Fehrenbach and Black present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of annotated book lists from Tudor and early Stuart libraries held during the Renaissance in England.
The editors have organized the annotated book lists that make up the main body of the text in four parts devoted to the Norfolk and Suffolk book lists, the Catholic libraries, lists of books owned by Tudor and Stuart women of the Renaissance, and lists of books owned by clerics in service to both Tudor and Stuart families.
R.J. Fehrenbach is a retired faculty member of the College of William and Mary, Virginia. Joseph L. Black is a faculty member of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Designed for historians of the book, literature, religion, and early modern culture, the volume provides dependable primary-source documentation—paired with editorial notes that help track editions, authors, subjects, and the wider intellectual networks behind these private collections.
