Privy tokens : wastepaper in early modern England, 1536-1680

This thesis considers the importance of wastepaper in early modern England. More than a rhetorical trope, I argue that repurposed pages were both materially and figuratively useful. Drawing on a range of textual and archival sources, I show how layers of meaning developed around paper fragments in t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reynolds, Anna
Other Authors: Smith, Helen
Published: University of York 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.745757