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Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England
By (Author) Mary Thomas Crane
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
820.9003
Paperback
292
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
397g
Writers in sixteenth-century England often kept commonplace books in which to jot down notable fragments encountered during reading or conversation, but few critics have fully appreciated the formative influence this activity had on humanism. Focusing on the discursive practices of "gathering" textual fragments and "framing" or forming, arranging,