Abstract
Abstract In an earlier manifestation, textual studies the term incorporates the twin disciplines of bibliography and editing stood outside mainstream Renaissance criticism. Bibliography and editing were seen as peripheral, less important than the ‘real work’ of literary analysis. One of the gains of the theoretical paradigm which has reshaped the Renaissance in recent years has been to unite these two strands of endeavour: theory has enabled a thorough revision of bibliography and editing, integrating both within the interpretive act and, in the process, transforming the status of textual studies. Signcant investigations into the construction of particular Renaissance editions, and discussions of the contemporary and subsequent histories of the early modern book, have given bibliography critical currency.
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