Description: Instructional Writing in English, 1 : Materiality and Meaning, Hardcover by Griffin, Carrie, ISBN 140945262X, ISBN-13 9781409452621, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Exploring the nature of practical or instructional works in English transmitted from the later Middle Ages to c. 1650, this volume considers textual and material strategies for the presentation and organisation of written knowledge and information during the period. The volume examines textual and material conditions of such works in manuscript, tracing their development through and beyond the arrival of the printing press in England in the late fifteenth century. Works on surgery, courtesy, astrology, writing for women and codicological recipes are examined closely from the perspective of frameworks, conventions, and structures, and more broadly in terms of transmission and dissemination, attitudes and traditions, readers and audiences, and shifting ideas about knowledge and the professional realm. 'Instructional Writing in English' makes a significant contribution to the study of so-called non-literary textual genres and their transmission, circulation and reception, in manuscript and in early modern printed books"--
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Book Title: Instructional Writing in English, 1350-1650 : Materiality and Mea
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Name: Instructional Writing in English 1350-1650 : Materiality and Meaning
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Science
Author: Carrie Griffin
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture Ser.
Format: Hardcover
