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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Reading practice
    sub title: the pursuit of natural knowledge from manuscript to print
  title info:
    title: Pursuit of natural knowledge from manuscript to print
  name:
    name part: Reynolds, Melissa B.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Informational works.
  genre: Documents d'information.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 302 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
  abstract: "'Reading Practice' tells the story of how ordinary English people grew comfortable learning from entirely mundane manuscripts and printed books, such as almanacs, medical recipe collections, and herbals. From the turn of the fifteenth century to the close of the sixteenth century, these were the books English people read when they wanted to attend to their health or understand their place in the universe. Before then, these works had largely been the purview of the monks or university clerics who could read Latin. Around 1400, however, medical and scientific texts became available in Middle English and became steadily less expensive. These 'practical manuscripts' invited their readers into a very old and learned conversation: Hippocrates and Galen weren't distant authorities whose word was law, they were trusted guides, whose advice could be excerpted, rearranged, recombined, and even altered when it suited a manuscript compiler or printer's needs. Without the weight of authority conditioning their reactions and responses to very old knowledge, English readers grew confident assessing and critiquing it, inserting their voices alongside the ancients in the margins of fifteenth-century manuscripts. By reconstructing their shifting attitudes toward medicine and science over two centuries of seismic change within English culture, attending especially to the effects of the Reformation on attitudes toward nature and the human body, Melissa Reynolds shows that English readers learned to be discerning and selective consumers of knowledge gradually, in everyday interactions with run-of-the-mill books"--
  table of contents: The making of a practical manuscript -- Picturing the natural world -- Writing recipes, wrangling the power of nature -- Marketing natural knowledge -- Prognostications past and future -- Printing women's knowledge, censoring secrets -- Englishing medicine and science.
  note: Melissa Reynolds.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-288) and index.
  note: AAHM: William H. Welch Medal, 2026 ; YBP Core 1000: Science, 2024 ; TLSR Sci/Tech/Medicine UP, 2025
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    topic: Communication in science
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Communication in science
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Books and reading
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Books and reading
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Scientific literature
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Scientific literature
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Manuscripts
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: England
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: England
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Livres et lecture
    geographic: Angleterre
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 16e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Aspect social
    geographic: Angleterre
  subject:
    topic: Information scientifique
    geographic: Angleterre
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 16e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Documentation
    geographic: Angleterre
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 16e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Manuscrits
    topic: Aspect social
    geographic: Angleterre
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    geographic: Angleterre
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: Jusqu'à 1500
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    geographic: Angleterre
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 16e siècle
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / General
  classification: Q225.2.G7 R43 2024
  classification: 508.42
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    title info:
      title: Reading practice
    name:
      name part: Reynolds, Melissa B.
    origin info:
      publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2024
    identifier: (OCoLC)1453172714
  identifier: 9780226823621
  identifier: 0226823628
  identifier: 9780226834894
  identifier: 0226834891
  identifier: 9780226823638
  identifier: 2023057804
  record info:
    record content source: ICU/DLC
    record creation date: 231218
    record change date: 20260610172553.8
    record identifier: in00005789270
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng