OPPORTUNITIES WITH OMEKA: COMMONPLACING THE EARLY TUDOR READING EXPERIENCE

COMMONPLACING IS A historically based method of reading and reappropriating texts that was common in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period but continued into later centuries and is also practised today in largely digital formats. The type that I use here is one of the broadest; simply “the unstructured compilation of verse and prose passages.”¹ It has been more rigidly defined and understood in very different ways, as the specific practices of commonplacing changed with the changing technology of the book. The increased access to paper, the gradual shift from manuscript to print and the evolution of a large-scale