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.