This collection of essays models and refines the study of these complicated volumes. Using extensive textual and bibliographical evidence, it offers stimulating new readings of literature, politics and religion in the early modern period, and promis...Lasīt vairāk
Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924-2011) was a man of many parts but first and foremost he was a bibliographer and a book historian. The present collection contains fifteen of his book-historical articles, two reviews and one published version of a lectur...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jan-2010, Izdevniecība: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444317855)
A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides a concise introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts....Lasīt vairāk
Two themes uniting the essays in this collection are the provenance and history of medieval manuscripts during the Middle Ages, and the fates that befell them in England in the period after the invention of printing and the 16th-century dissolution...Lasīt vairāk
Provides an invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writers and the historical and cultural notes provided....Lasīt vairāk
This collection of reviews deals with the role of the book in the spread of the Protestant Reformation all over the continent, identifying common European experiences and local peculiarities. It summarizes importent work on the topic from every majo...Lasīt vairāk
This volume celebrates the work of William OSullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, made more accessible and elucidated the documents in his care....Lasīt vairāk
The essays in this second volume from Helmut Gneuss are devoted to the study of books, their readers, and libraries in medieval England, especially in the Anglo-Saxon period....Lasīt vairāk
Did the 16th-century Reformation influence French language and culture? This book, the fullest available bibliography of religious printing in French during the early Reformation, provides the materials to answer this question....Lasīt vairāk
This text looks at printed commonplace-books and the structuring of Renaissance thought. It should be of interest to scholars and students of Renaissance literature, cultural history, rhetoric, theology and philosophy....Lasīt vairāk
Examines scribal publication - considers its relevance for book-trade history, the sociology of authorship and the communication of ideas. Long after the establishment of printing, many important writers and composers still preferred to publish thei...Lasīt vairāk
