Julia Crick is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter.
Alexandra Walsham is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Exeter.
1. Introduction: Script, print and history Alexandra Walsham and Julia
Crick; Part I. Script, Print and Late Medieval Religion: 2. Publication
before print: the case of Julian of Norwich Felicity Riddy; 3. Printing,
mass communication and religious reformation: the Middle Ages and after
David d'Avray; 4. Print and pre-Reformation religion: the Benedictines and
the press in early Tudor England James G. Clark; Part II. Script, Print and
Textual Tradition: 5. Law and text: legal authority and judicial
accessibility in the late Middle Ages Anthony Musson; 6. The art of the
unprinted: transcription and English antiquity in the age of print Julia
Crick; 7. The authority of the word: manuscript, print and the text of the
Bible in seventeenth-century England Scott Mandelbrote; Part III. Script,
Print and Speech: 8. The functions of script in the speech community of a
late medieval town, c.1300-1550 Andrew Butcher; 9. The sound of print in
early modern England: the broadside ballad as song Christopher Marsh; 10.
Communicating with authority: the uses of script, print and speech in
Bristol 1640-1714 Jonathan Barry; Part IV. Script, Print and Persecution:
11. Preaching without speaking: script, print and religious dissent
Alexandra Walsham; 12. Publish and perish: the scribal culture of the
Marian martyrs Thomas S. Freeman; 13. Print, persecution and polemic:
Thomas Edwards' Gangraena (1646) and Civil War sectarianism Ann Hughes; 14.
Epilogue Margaret Aston.
