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Chapter 3 - Access to Texts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2020

Brian Richardson
Brian Richardson
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University of Leeds
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This chapter looks at the last phase of the communications circuits, in which texts move from producers to readers or listeners. It studies the various means through which women of all social classes could encounter texts. It is most concerned with books as objects that women came to own, through gift-giving (especially in the case of Books of Hours), dowries and inheritance, by commissioning manuscripts, through purchases, and through borrowing from other members of their communities. It also considers the contexts in which women could hear texts performed in song or speech. The chapter ends with a case study of the acquisition of books by a prominent Renaissance consort, Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua.

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gift-givingdowriesBooks of HoursoralityIsabella d'Este
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Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy , pp. 149 - 224
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Access to Texts
  • Brian Richardson, University of Leeds
  • Book: Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy
  • Online publication: 13 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774482.004
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  • Access to Texts
  • Brian Richardson, University of Leeds
  • Book: Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy
  • Online publication: 13 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774482.004
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  • Access to Texts
  • Brian Richardson, University of Leeds
  • Book: Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy
  • Online publication: 13 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774482.004
Available formats
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