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John Dee : The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
author
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Sherman, William H.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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1558490701
print isbn13
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9781558490703
ebook isbn13
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9780585278926
language
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English
subject
Dee, John,--1527-1608--Library, Dee, John,--1527-1608--Books and reading, Scientists--Great Britain, Astrologers--Great Britain.
publication date
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1995
lcc
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Z8220.9.S48 1995eb
ddc
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001/.092
subject
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Dee, John,--1527-1608--Library, Dee, John,--1527-1608--Books and reading, Scientists--Great Britain, Astrologers--Great Britain.
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John Dee
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A volume in the series
Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
Edited by Arthur F. Kinney
EDITORIAL BOARD A. R. Braunmuller, Donald Foster, Jean E. Howard, Linda Levy Peck, John Pitcher, Anne Lake Prescott, David Harris Sacks, Jenny Wormald
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John Dee
The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance
William H. Sherman
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS AMHERST
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Copyright 1995 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 9420149 ISBN 0-87023-940-6 (cloth); ISBN 1-55849-070-1 (pbk.) Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sherman, William H. (William Howard) John Dee : the politics of reading and writing in the English Renaissance/William H. Sherman. p. cm.(Massachusetts studies in early modern culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-940-6 (alk. paper). ISBN 1-55849-070-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Dee, John, 15271608Library. 2. Dee, John, 15271608Books and reading. 3. ScientistsGreat Britain. 4. AstrologersGreat Britain. I. Title. Z8220.9.S48 1995 001'.092dc20 9420149 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
An earlier version of chapter 6 appeared as "John Dee's Brytannicae Reipublicae Synopsis: A Reader's Guide to the Elizabethan Commonwealth," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 20:2, pp. 293-315. Copyright Duke University Press, 1990. Reprinted with permission.
Part titles: Plate 2 from Johannes Stradanus, Nova Reperta {New Discoveries} (Antwerp, c. 1600), illustrating the invention of the compass. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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To My Teachers
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xi
Part I. Introduction
One. Politics in the Margins: The Careers of John Dee
3
Part II. Readings
Two. A Living Library: The Bibliotheca Mortlacensis Revisited
29
Three. Reading: Modern Theory and Early Modern Practice
53
Four. Dee's Marginalia
79
Part III. Writings
Five. Dee's Political Science: An Introduction to the Manuscript Writings
115
Six. Brytannicae Reipublicae Synopsis (1570): A Reader's Guide to the Elizabethan Commonwealth
128
Seven. "This British Discovery and Recovery Enterprise": Dee and England's Maritime Empire
148
A. General and Rare Memorials (1576/77)
152
B. Of Famous and Rich Discoveries (1577)
171
C. Brytanici Imperii Limites (157678)
182
D. THALATTOKRATIA BRETTANIKI (1597)
192
Notes
201
Bibliography
253
Index
281
Illustrations begin on page
101
Page ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In a book that stresses the communal contexts of scholarship, it is an especially appropriate pleasure to acknowledge the communities that have influenced and sustained me during its production.
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