Paper, Pen and Ink: Manuscript Cultures in Early Modern England. First Meeting: 4 November 2013: 5.30pm: Room 234 (2nd Floor, Senate House): Tom Lockwood (University of Birmingham): With wordes of my profession I replie: New Manuscripts of Sir John Davies (1569-1626) and the Development of Manuscript Studies This paper will use the evidence of newly described manuscripts of Sir John Davies’ poems to explore the later-twentieth century development of manuscript studies leading up to, and following, Robert Krueger’s edition of The Poems of Sir John Davies (1975). Davies, styled a ‘lawyer and poet’ by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a kind of writer whose multiple engagements in poetry, patronage, politics and prose have often proved difficult to gauge and to place. This paper will situate case studies of manuscripts containing texts by Davies within the shape of his career and by tracing a larger account of developments in assumptions about, and understandings of, manuscript and print habits in the early modern period. Exploring the earlier history of Davies scholarship, it will suggest some ways in which, in the future, scholars working on Davies might respond to new developments in the field.
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