The Post-Medieval Reception of Medieval Manuscripts

In this episode Prof Margaret Connolly talks about the post-medieval reception of medieval texts. Along a selection of eight manuscripts, Margaret traces how three generations of a sixteenth-century family from Middlesex read and used books from the fifteenth century. Examining their annotations of the fifteenth-century manuscripts, Margaret derives insights about the relevance of medieval contents for sixteenth-century readers and places the individual personae into the context of the English Reformation.  

Prof Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology in the Schools of English and History at the University of St Andrews, as well as Director of the St Andrews Institute in Medieval Studies. She is author of Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books: Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2019).