Empty Tuns and Unfruitful Grafts: Richard Grafton's Historical Publications
Changes at the Tudor accession caused a reassessment of English history. The 1560's saw a flurry of abridged histories, aimed at the common reader. Prominent among the writers of such abridgements was Richard Grafton, who had acquired a printing business to publish the English Bible in 1539, ro...
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1990
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1990, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-56 |
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| Summary: | Changes at the Tudor accession caused a reassessment of English history. The 1560's saw a flurry of abridged histories, aimed at the common reader. Prominent among the writers of such abridgements was Richard Grafton, who had acquired a printing business to publish the English Bible in 1539, rose to become King's Printer under Edward VI, and lost his press under Queen Mary, by which time he had edited and published Hardint's and Halle's Chronicles and minor historical works. In 1563 he published an abridged chronicle of England containing many errors. The errors of his abridgement and the earlier ones he was trying to correct led John Stow to produce a new abridgement. When Grafton attacked Stow in a new abridged abridgement, an argument abour correctness and the purpose of history began, and was carried on in prefaces and subsequent editions and versions of history until 1573. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2541131 |