Note: The Select Bibliography does not represent a common reading list, because most of its entries consist of optional secondary readings related to our group activities.

Selected Print Resources

Barber, Giles. Arks for Learning: A Short History of Oxford Library Buildings. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1995.

Barnard, John, and D. F. McKenzie, ed. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 4: 1557-1695. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Bowen, Karen L., and Dirk  Imhof. Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Bracken, James. "Come Ye Blessed, Go Ye Cursed": The World of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Also Known as The Book of Martyrs. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Libraries, 1999.

_____, and Mark Rankin. Religious Orthodoxy and Dissent in Early Modern England. Columbus: The Ohio State University Libraries, 2005.

Camille, Michael. "Seeing and Reading: Some Visual Implications of Medieval Literacy and Illiteracy." Art History 8 (1985): 26-49.

Carlson, David.  “Formats in English Printing to 1557.” AEB:  Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 2 (1988):  50-57.

Carter, Harry Graham. A View of Early Typography Up to About 1600, Lyell Lectures, 1968. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.

Chartier, Roger. "Texts, Printing, Readings." In The New Cultural History, edited by Lynn Hunt, 154-75. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989. 

_____, and Guilielmo Cavallo, ed. A History of Reading in the West. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Cummings, Brian. The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Darnton, Robert. "What Is the History of Books?" Daedalus (1982): 65-83.

Davis, Natalie Zemon.  “Misprint and Minerva:  Printers’ Journeymen in Sixteenth-Century Lyon.”  Printing History 3 (1981): 17-23.

De Hamel, Christopher. “Bibles of the Protestant Reformation.” In de Hamel’s The Book: A History of the Bible. London: Phaidon, 2001. 216-45.

De Nave, Francine. Antwerp, Dissident Typographical Centre: The Role of Antwerp Printers in the Religious Conflicts in England (16th Century) Vol. No. 31, Plantin-Moretus Museum and Stedelijk Prentenkabinet. Antwerp: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1994.

De Nave, Francine, and Leon Voet. Plantin-Moretus Museum Antwerp. Ghent-Amsterdam: Ludion, 2004.

Driver, Martha. “Iconoclasm and Reform: The Survival of Late Medieval Images and the Printed Book”(Chap. 6).In The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England and Its Sources. London: British Library, 2004. 185-214, 263-72.

———. "Nuns as Patrons, Artists, Readers: Bridgettine Woodcuts in Printed Books Produced for the English Market." In Art into Life: Collected Papers from the Kresge Art Museum Medieval Symposia, edited by Carol Garrett Fisher and Kathleen L. Scott. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1995. 236-67.

———. "Pictures in Print: Late Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-Century English Religious Books for Lay Readers." In De Cella in Seculum: Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England, edited by Michael G. Sargent, 229-44: D. S. Brewer, 1989.

Edwards, A. S. G. "Decorated Caxtons." In Incunabula : Studies in Fifteenth-Century Books Presented to Lotte Hellinga edited by Martin Davies. London: British Library, 1999. 493-506.

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Febvre, Lucien, and Henri-Jean Martin. The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800. Translated by David Gerard. London: Verso, 1984.

Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. rpt. with corrections ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.

Gehl, Paul F. "Religion and Politics in the Market for Books: The Jesuits and Their Rivals." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 97 (2003): 435-60.

Gillespie, Alexandra. “The Press, the Medieval Author, and the English Reformation, 1534 to 1557” (Chap. 5).  Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books 1473-1557. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 187-228.

Gilmont, Jean-François. "Protestant Reformations and Reading." In A History of Reading in the West, edited by Roger Chartier, 213-237, 419-424. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

_____, ed. The Reformation and the Book. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.

Grafton, Anthony, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, and Adrian Johns. "AHR Forum: How Revolutionary Was the Print Revolution? 'an Unacknowledged Revolution Revisited' and 'How to Acknowledge a Revolution'." American Historical Review 107 (2002): 84-128.

Haigh, Christopher. The English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Hellinga, Lotte, and J. B. Trapp, eds. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 3: 1400-1557. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Highley, Christopher. "Richard Verstegan's Book of Martyrs." In John Foxe and His World, edited by Christopher and John N. King Highley, 183-97. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2002.

Johnston, Andrew G., and Jean-François Gilmont. "Printing and the Reformation in Antwerp." In The Reformation and the Book, edited by Gilmont, 188-213.

Kastan, David Scott. “Size Matters.”  Shakespeare Studies 28 (2000):  149-53.

King, John N. Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

———. "Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the History of the Book." Explorations in Renaissance Culture 30 (2004): 171-96.

———. "Guides to Reading Foxe's Book of Martyrs." Huntington Library Quarterly 68 (2005): 133-50.

_____, ed. Voices of the English Reformation: A Sourcebook. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Klotz, Edith L. “A Subject Analysis of English Imprints for Every Tenth Year from 1480 to 1640.”  Huntington Library Quarterly 1 (1938):  417-19.

Latré, Guido. "The 1535 Coverdale Bible and Its Antwerp Origins." In The Bible as Book: The Reformation, edited by O'Sullivan & Herron, 89-102. London: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2000.

———. "William Tyndale in Antwerp: Reformers, Bible Translator, and Maker of the English Language." In de Nave, ed., Antwerp, Dissident Typographical Centre, 55-66.

Loades, David. "Books and the English Reformation Prior to 1558." In The Reformation and the Book, edited by Gilmont, 264-91.

McKenzie, D. F. "The Book as an Expressive Form." In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, 1-21. London: British Library, 1986.

_____. "Printers of the Mind: Some Notes on Bibliographical Theories and Printing-House Practices." Studies in Bibliography 22 (1969): 1-75.

Neville-Sington, Pamela. "Press, Politics, and Religion." In Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 3, ed. Hellinga and Trapp, 576-607.

Noreen, Kirstin. "Ecclesiae Militantis Triumphi: Jesuit Iconography and the Counter-Reformation." Sixteenth Century Journal 29 (1998): 689-714.

O'Sullivan, Orlaith, and Ellen N. Herron, ed. The Bible as Book: The Reformation. London: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2000.

Pelikan, Jaroslav. “Back to the Sources.” In Pelikan’s Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures through the Ages, 141-60. New York: Viking Penguin, 2005.

Pettegree, Andrew. "Illustrating the Book: A Protestant Dilemma." In John Foxe and His World, edited by Christopher Highley and John N. King, 133-44. Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate, 2002.

———. 2000. "‘The Law and Gospel’: The Evolution of an Evangelical Pictorial Theme in the Bibles of the Reformation." In Bible as Book (2000), ed. O'Sullivan and Herron, 123-37.

_____. "Printing and the Reformation: The English Exception." In The Beginnings of English Protestantism, edited by Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie, 157-79. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Saenger, Paul. “Written Culture at the End of the Middle Ages.” In Saenger’s Space between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading, 256-76. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Scribner, R. W. "For the Sake of the Simple Folk": Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Shagan, Ethan. Popular Politics and the English Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Stallybrass, Peter. "Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible." In Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies, edited by Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer, 42-79. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Thomas, Keith. "The Meaning of Literacy in Early Modern England." In The Written Word: Literacy in Transition, edited by Gerd Baumann, 97-131. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

Trapp, J. B. "Literacy, Books and Readers." In Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 3, ed. Hellinga and Trapp, 31-43.

Voet, Leon. The Golden Compasses: A History and Evaluation of the Printing and Publishing Activities of the Officina Plantiniana at Antwerp. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Vangendt, 1972.

Walsham, Alexandra. "'Domme Preachers'? Post-Reformation English Catholicism and the Culture of Print." Past and Present 168 (2000): 72-121.

Watt, Tessa. Cheap Print and Popular Piety 1550-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1991.

John Day colophon portrait device, from John Foxe, Book of Martyrs (1563). Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology. Photo by Jon Speck.

Opening page of Matthew's Gospel, Novum Testamentem (1519) of Desiderius Erasmus

Visitation Articles of John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells (1606), unbound

A page of the Complutensian Polyglot (1513-17). This Bible prints text from the Hebrew, Latin Vulgate, Greek Septuagint in the upper row, left-right.

It prints the Aramaic (the Targum Onkelos) and its Latin translation in the bottom row, left-right.

Coverdale Bible title page (1535)

Lucas Cranach the Elder, from the Passional Christi und Antichristi (1521)

Christopher Lever, The History of the Defendors of the Catholic Faith (1627), title page