In this episode Prof Margaret Connolly talks about the post-medieval
reception of medieval texts. Along a selection of eight manuscripts,
Margaret traces how three generations of a sixteenth-century family from
Middlesex read and used books from the fifteenth century. Examining their
annotations of the fifteenth-century manuscripts, Margaret derives insights
about the relevance of medieval contents for sixteenth-century readers and
places the individual personae into the context of the English Reformation.
