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Congratulations! A great accomplishment! On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Abigail Ann Young < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Congratulations to Sandy and the whole team! > > > > On 2018-04-18 12:50 PM, Sarah MacLean wrote: > >> REED: Berkshire, ed. Alexandra F. Johnston, Launched! >> >> Announcing REED?s second digital edition, for the county of Berkshire, >> edited by Alexandra F. Johnston. Now freely available at REED Online: >> https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/. >> >> We are pleased to make available the long-awaited records for >> Berkshire and equally delighted that for the first time users will be >> able to search across two collections for locations, people and a wide >> range of topics, such as summer games or the King?s Men. We anticipate >> an ever-growing list of results as more collections are published >> online. >> >> The REED: Berkshire records illustrate a rich popular entertainment >> tradition. The most prominent details of mimetic activity come from >> the parish of St Laurence, Reading, which has preserved records >> running from 1498 to 1573, among the fullest and richest in England. >> Virtually every kind of mimetic activity is featured--an Easter play >> with evidence from 1498 to 1537, an early sixteenth-century Creation >> play, a Robin Hood game, morris dancing, church ales, maypoles, and >> Hock gatherings. Reading was a stopping place for all kinds of late >> medieval travelling entertainers as well as for some of the most >> prominent professional companies, including Queen Elizabeth?s, the >> earl of Leicester?s, and King James? players, along with those of >> other royal family members in the early seventeenth century. Noble >> households are also well represented in the collection, which includes >> an edition of ?The Entertainment of Queen Elizabeth? by Lady Elizabeth >> Russell at Bisham in 1592. >> > > -- > Dr Abigail Ann Young > 303-45 Carlton St > Toronto, ON > 416-260-0193 > http:/www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young > http:/wrestlingwiththebible.ca >