Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland

by Raymond Gillespie

Book Overview

This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the importance of books and printing in influencing the outlook of early modern people is well known, recent years have seen significant changes in our understanding of how writing and print shaped lives, and was in turn shaped by those who appropriated the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719087821
• ISBN13: 9780719087820
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"