This book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across all classes, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on the interrelati

Co-published by: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.

"Two ideas lie at the heart of this study and its claim that we need a new history of reading: that voices in books can affect us deeply ; that printed books ca

This collection offers a cross-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which multilingual practices were embedded in early modern European literary culture, ope

An investigation into the various ways in which Renaissance writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves in Britain,