A Directory Of The Parochial Libraries Of The Church Of England And The Church In Wales

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A Directory of the Parochial Libraries of the Church of England and the Church in Wales

Author : Neil Ripley Ker
Publisher : OUP/The Bibliographical Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9780948170133
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Directory of the Parochial Libraries of the Church of England and the Church in Wales written by Neil Ripley Ker and published by OUP/The Bibliographical Society of London. This book was released on 2004 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of the unauthorized sale, loss, or deteriorating condition of parochial libraries in the 1930s and 1940s, a postal survey of surviving collections was undertaken which resulted in a detailed report and directory finally published under the general editorship of Neil Ker as The Parochial Libraries of the Church of England: Report of a Committee appointed by the Central Council for the Care of Churches to Investigate the Number and Condition of Parochial Libraries belonging to the Church of England, with a Historical Introduction, Notes on Early Printed Books and their Care and an Alphabetical List of Parochial Libraries Past and Present, by Faith Press in 1959. This book is a thorough revision of that work and incorporates much of its apparatus while reflecting new discoveries and recent research. The Directory in particular has been greatly expanded to include libraries established up to c. 1900, and, especially, a broad sample of what have come to be known as desk-libraries, with one or more pre-1700 prescribed books. Many of the reports, documents, and tables, including the historical introduction, have been reprinted in this new edition, edited and modified to take account of new developments and findings. A Postscript, 2000 briefly outlines research in this field over the last 50 years or so, and there are a number of new lists and tables, one including statistical information. The index is a key to the whole book and should be especially consulted for references to former owners and donors and subject strengths.

Reading Between the Lines

Author : Jessica G. Purdy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004363718
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Reading Between the Lines written by Jessica G. Purdy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the establishment and use of parish libraries in early modern England and includes a thematic analysis of surviving marginalia and readers' marks. This book is the first direct and detailed analysis of parish libraries in early modern England and uses a case-study approach to the examination of foundation practices, physical and intellectual accessibility, the nature of the collections, and the ways in which people used these libraries and read their books.

Godly Reading

Author : Andrew Cambers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521764890
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Godly Reading written by Andrew Cambers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative exploration of Puritan reading practices from c.1580-1720 connects the history of religion with the history of the book.

Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

Author : Isabel Rivers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192542621
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Vanity Fair and the Celestial City written by Isabel Rivers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth century, and of the dramatic expansion of popular publishing. Similarly, much has been written on the extraordinary effects of the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century in Britain, Europe, and North America. But how did popular religious culture and the world of print interact? It is now known that religious works formed the greater part of the publishing market for most of the century. What religious books were read, and how? Who chose them? How did they get into people's hands? Vanity Fair and the Celestial City is the first book to answer these questions in detail. It explores the works written, edited, abridged, and promoted by evangelical dissenters, Methodists both Arminian and Calvinist, and Church of England evangelicals in the period 1720 to 1800. Isabel Rivers also looks back to earlier sources and forward to the continued republication of many of these works well into the nineteenth century. The first part is concerned with the publishing and distribution of religious books by commercial booksellers and not-for-profit religious societies, and the means by which readers obtained them and how they responded to what they read. The second part shows that some of the most important publications were new versions of earlier nonconformist, episcopalian, Roman Catholic, and North American works. The third part explores the main literary kinds, including annotated bibles, devotional guides, exemplary lives, and hymns. Building on many years' research into the religious literature of the period, Rivers discusses over two hundred writers and provides detailed case studies of popular and influential works.

Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland

Author : Karen Attar
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783300167
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland written by Karen Attar and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.

Communities of Print

Author : Rosamund Oates
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004470433
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Communities of Print written by Rosamund Oates and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new perspective on book history, with essays from leading scholars showing how communities of writers, publishers and readers across early modern Europe shaped the consumption of print.

British Librarianship and Information Work 2001–2005

Author : J.H. Bowman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317171888
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book British Librarianship and Information Work 2001–2005 written by J.H. Bowman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important reference volume covers developments in aspects of British library and information work during the five year period 2001-2005. Over forty contributors, all of whom are experts in their subject, provide an overview of their field along with extensive further references which act as a starting point for further research. The book provides a comprehensive record of library and information management during the past five years and will be essential reading for all scholars, library professionals and students.

The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680-1840

Author : W. M. Jacob
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191526576
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680-1840 written by W. M. Jacob and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. M. Jacob examines the concept of 'profession' during the later Stuart and Georgian period, with special reference to the clergy of the Church of England. He describes their social backgrounds, how they were recruited, selected, and educated, and obtained jobs; how they were paid, and their lifestyles and family life, as well as examining the evidence for what they did as leaders of worship, pastors and teachers, how their parishioners responded to them, and how they were supervised. Jacob concludes that, contrary to popular views, the clerical profession was much better organized, educated, and supervised than the medical and legal professions during this period. During the 'age of reform' from the 1780s to the 1830s, all the professions were criticized: Jacob suggests that the modest regulation and professional training introduced in the other learned professions in the 1830s only slowly brought them to the standard already achieved by the clerical profession.

Changing Churches

Author : Charles Mynors
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441168214
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Changing Churches written by Charles Mynors and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book de-mystifies the whole process of carrying out works to churches. It explains what consents are needed; how they can be applied for; and on what basis applications are decided. The author explores many of the detailed issues that may arise in practice – whether the proposal is to move a shelf in the vestry or to embark on a major refurbishment of the whole church. Topics covered include heating, lighting, access for the less mobile, toilets, kitchens, security, storage, repairs and maintenance. The impact of change on the congregation is considered, as well as the particular problems that may arise where new facilities or new uses are introduced. This indispensable guide highlights issues to consider when contemplating changes and helps the reader to navigate the complex legal and practical processes involved in carrying out works to churches.

Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650–1750

Author : Ann-Marie Hansen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004691944
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650–1750 written by Ann-Marie Hansen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries. Its essays discuss this critical, but much neglected period of print history through case studies from Spain, Italy, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Britain and the Netherlands. Ranging from the posthumous publication of Galileo to the regulation of the book auction market, this volume demonstrates that the century between 1650 and 1750 was a transformative period for the history of the printed book.

A Decent, Regular and Orderly State?

Author : Philippa M. Hoskin
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781904497509
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book A Decent, Regular and Orderly State? written by Philippa M. Hoskin and published by Borthwick Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences

Author : John D. McDonald
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000031543
Total Pages : 5538 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences written by John D. McDonald and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 5538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, comprising of seven volumes, now in its fourth edition, compiles the contributions of major researchers and practitioners and explores the cultural institutions of more than 30 countries. This major reference presents over 550 entries extensively reviewed for accuracy in seven print volumes or online. The new fourth edition, which includes 55 new entires and 60 revised entries, continues to reflect the growing convergence among the disciplines that influence information and the cultural record, with coverage of the latest topics as well as classic articles of historical and theoretical importance.

Religion and the Book Trade

Author : Caroline Archer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443883417
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Book Trade written by Caroline Archer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a selection of the papers presented at the “Print Networks” conference at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, in July 2011. The conference theme, “Religion and the book trade”, was chosen to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. Numerous events throughout the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world took place to commemorate this historic event, the Print Networks conference being one of many. Religious books – be they tracts, sermons, homilies, hymn books, or Bibles – were primarily used by all denominations to spread their version of Christianity, to attract people to their cause, and to retain the loyalty of supporters. But these publications are also credited with the survival of indigenous languages, and, naturally, the printers and distributors of these religious works were crucial to the process of spreading both religion and literacy among the population. The contributions to this book cover a wide gamut of religion and the book trade from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Most of the chapters are concerned with the European book trade and concentrate on Christian religions and cover both Catholic and Protestant, particularly Nonconformist/Dissenter, experiences. Most of the chapters relate to the British and Irish book trade, but there are also contributions discussing Italy and the Netherlands. There are chapters relating to the printers and publishers of religious works; authorship; the issue and production of religious periodicals; the promoters of religious libraries; and clandestine elements of the trade. This volume emphasises the pivotal role played by those in the book trade – printers, publishers or booksellers – in the distribution of religious works, and demonstrates that spreading the ideas of their authors, creators, or translators would have been far more difficult without their involvement. This book will be of interest to academics, independent scholars, heritage professionals and research students in the fields of book trade history; book arts; bibliography; bookbinding; printing and typographic history; publishing; social and industrial history; and religious history.

The Prelate in England and Europe, 1300-1560

Author : Martin Heale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1903153581
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Prelate in England and Europe, 1300-1560 written by Martin Heale and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the role of the high-ranking churchman in this period - who they were, what they did, and how they perceived themselves.

A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts

Author : Mark Bland
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118653998
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts written by Mark Bland and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts Winner, Honourable Mention for Literature, Language and Linguistics, American Publishers Prose Awards, 2010 Based almost exclusively on new primary research Explains the complex process of viewing documents as artefacts, showing readers how to describe documents properly and how to read their physical properties Demonstrates how to use the information gleaned as a tool for studying the transmission of literary documents Makes clear why such matters are important and the purposes to which such information is put Features illustrations that are carefully chosen for their unfamiliarity in order to keep the discussion fresh

Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485-2011

Author : John Morgan-Guy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317067835
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485-2011 written by John Morgan-Guy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the medieval and early modern periods the Welsh diocese of St Davids was one of the largest in the country and the most remote. As this collection makes clear, this combination of factors resulted in a religious life which was less regulated and controlled by the institutional forces of both Church and State. Addressing key ideas in the development of popular religious culture and the stubborn continuity of long-lasting religious practices into the modern era, the volume shows how the diocese was also a locus for continuing major religious controversies, especially in the nineteenth century. Presenting a fresh view of the Diocese of St Davids since the Reformation, this is the first new account of religion and society in over a century. It is, moreover, not one which is written primarily from an institutional perspective but from that of wider society. As well as a chronological treatment, giving an overview of the history of religion in the diocese, chapters address key themes, including a study of religious revivals which originated within the borders of the diocese; consideration of popular and elite education, including the contribution of Bishop Burgess's pioneering institution at Lampeter (the first degree awarding institution in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge); the relationship of the Church to the revival of Welsh cultural identity; and new reflections on the agitation and realisation of disestablishment of the Church as it affected Wales. As such, this pioneering study has much to offer all those with an interest, not only in Welsh history, but ecclesiastical history more broadly.

Cultural Reformations

Author : Brian Cummings
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191549754
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Reformations written by Brian Cummings and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. The deepest periodic division in English literary history has been between the Medieval and the Early Modern, not least because the cultural investments in maintaining that division are exceptionally powerful. Narratives of national and religious identity and freedom; of individual liberties; of the history of education and scholarship; of reading or the history of the book; of the very possibility of persuasive historical consciousness itself: each of these narratives (and more) is motivated by positing a powerful break around 1500. None of the claims for a profound historical and cultural break at the turn of the fifteenth into the sixteenth centuries is negligible. The very habit of working within those periodic bounds (either Medieval or Early Modern) tends, however, simultaneously to affirm and to ignore the rupture. It affirms the rupture by staying within standard periodic bounds, but it ignores it by never examining the rupture itself. The moment of profound change is either, for medievalists, just over an unexplored horizon; or, for Early Modernists, a zero point behind which more penetrating examination is unnecessary. That situation is now rapidly changing. Scholars are building bridges that link previously insular areas. Both periods are starting to look different in dialogue with each other. The change underway has yet to find collected voices behind it. Cultural Reformations volume aims to provide those voices. It will give focus, authority, and drive to a new area.