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Author : Humphrey Wanley
Publisher : London : Bibliographical Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Diary of Humfrey Wanley, 1715-1726: 1715-1723 written by Humphrey Wanley and published by London : Bibliographical Society. This book was released on 1966 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Humphrey Wanley
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters of Humfrey Wanley written by Humphrey Wanley and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 243 letters, only a handful of which have previously appeared in print, illustrates the full range of Humfrey Wanley's interests as Anglo-Saxonist, palaeographer, and the greatest librarian of his age. Covering the years from his arrival in Oxford in 1694 to his death in 1726, they show the genesis and growth of Wanley's great Catalogus, his comprehensive account of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts published in 1705. They also chart his formulation of palaeography as a discipline for English scholarship from an immense range of ancient materials, and illustrate the skill and energy with which Wanley, as library-keeper to Robert Harley, built up the Harleian collection (subsequently one of the foundation collections of the British Museum).
Author : Humphrey Wanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Diary of Humfrey Wanley, 1715-1726: 1723-1726 written by Humphrey Wanley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004324305
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Archival Afterlives written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. If early modern natural philosophers claimed all knowledge as their province, theirs was a paper empire. But how and why did naturalists engage with archives, and in particular, with the papers of their dead predecessors? This volume makes a firm case for expanding what counts as scientific labour, integrating scribes, archivist, library keepers, editors, and friends and family of deceased naturalists into the history of science. It shows how early modern natural philosophers pursued new natural knowledge in dialogue with their recent material past. Finally, it demonstrates the sustaining importance of archival institutions in the growth and development of the “New Sciences.” Contributors are: Arnold Hunt, Michael Hunter, Vera Keller, Carol Pal, Anna Marie Roos, Richard Serjeantson, Victoria Sloyan, Alison Walker, and Elizabeth Yale.
Author : Adam Smyth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198846231
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England written by Adam Smyth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How were books in early modern England made, circulated, sold, stored, read, marked, altered, preserved, and destroyed? The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a stimulating account of the very newest work in the field, and an exploration of how new thinking might develop. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North America, the volume combines lucidity, scholarly expertise, intellectual precision, and an imaginative structure that will enable contributors to show why the history of the book matters. This volume analyses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, and also considers critically how we can talk about the history of book"--
Author : Mary P. Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317758900
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts written by Mary P. Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of manuscripts is fundamental to the appreciation of Anglo-Saxon texts and culture. Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: Basic Readings provides an introductory collection of materials covering basic terms, techniques, resources, issues, and applications. Focusing on manuscripts copied before 1100 in England, the selections gathered here consider their history, production, analysis, and significance. Drawn from a variety of published sources and new writings commissioned for this collection, these essays offer a thorough background in principles and practices, along with up-to-date coverage of new developments in paleography. This interdisciplinary collection introduces key subjects of research for Anglo-Saxon studies while suggesting potential developments and new directions within the field.
Author : George Hickes
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888449047
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book A Chorus of Grammars written by George Hickes and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1992 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frans Korsten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521128889
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (288 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Baker written by Frans Korsten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Korsten provides a biographical sketch of Thomas Baker and reconstructs his library of 4300 titles.
Author : Dimitris Tziovas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317124782
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700 written by Dimitris Tziovas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek diaspora is one of the paradigmatic historical diasporas. Though some trace its origins to ancient Greek colonies, it is really a more modern phenomenon. Diaspora, exile and immigration represent three successive phases in Modern Greek history and they are useful vantage points from which to analyse changes in Greek society, politics and culture over the last three centuries. Embracing a wide range of case studies, this volume charts the role of territorial displacements as social and cultural agents from the eighteenth century to the present day and examines their impact on communities, politics, institutional attitudes and culture. By studying migratory trends the aim is to map out the transformation of Greece from a largely homogenous society with a high proportion of emigrants to a more diverse society inundated by immigrants after the end of the Cold War. The originality of this book lies in the bringing together of diaspora, exile and immigration and its focus on developments both inside and outside Greece.
Author : Curtis Runstedler
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031266064
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature written by Curtis Runstedler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative and exemplum in the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the fifteenth century, namely alchemical dialogues between Morienus and Merlin, Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves, and an alchemical version of John Lydgate’s poem The Churl and the Bird. It investigates how this exemplarity can be read as inherent to understanding poetic narratives containing alchemy, as well as enabling the reader to reassess the understanding and expectations of science and narrative within medieval English poetry.
Author : Philip Ayres
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521584906
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England written by Philip Ayres and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the aristocratic adoption of Roman ideals in eighteenth-century English culture.
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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472512510
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Medieval Literature and Civilization written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original contributions to the study of medieval literature and civilization in Britain and Scandinavia are published as a memorial to Norman Garmonsway, Chair of English at King's College, University of London, who died in 1967. The aim has been to offer to the public a book of essays which have a direct bearing upon his central academic interests and which is thus structured, in some measure, after his mind. He saw the study of the language and literature (together with the history and archaeology) of early Britain and Scandinavia as forming a single coherent discipline and this conception of unity in diversity can be glimpsed both in the range of matters which he chose to write upon and in many of his individual pieces. These essays will also appeal to the interested non-specialist, reflecting the fact that Norman Garmonsway was, despite his erudition, the very antithesis of the remote and secluded scholar.
Author : Keith Busby
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051836035
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes written by Keith Busby and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004456120
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes / The Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes, Volume 2 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susanna Fein
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580445047
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Studies in the Harley Manuscript written by Susanna Fein and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in the Harley Manuscript is the first comprehensive examination of a manuscript that is of supreme value to literary scholars of medieval English literature. In an Introduction and fifteen essays a team of scholars considers many aspects of the 140 folios of this trilingual miscellany that preserves 121 items (or 122 depending on how one counts) from which we get a strange and privileged glimpse into the rich literary heritage that existed in England prior to the flourishing of vernacular poetry in the Richardian era. As the Contents indicates, the history and composition of the manuscript are considered, as are the Anglo-Norman, English, and Latin compositions that it preserves. This is a companion volume to the three volume complete edition of Harley 2253.
Author : Joseph M. Levine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727648
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Battle of the Books written by Joseph M. Levine and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph M. Levine provides a witty and erudite account of one of the most celebrated chapters in English cultural history, the acrimonious quarrel between the "ancients" and the "moderns" which Jonathan Swift dubbed "the Battle of the Books." The dispute that amused and excited the English world of letters from 1690 until the 1730s was, Levine shows, an installment in the long-standing debate about the relationship of classical learning to modern life. Levine argues that the debate was fundamentally a quarrel about the rival claims of history and literature concerning the proper way to understand the authors of the past. He skillfully examines how both sides wrote their own brands of history: The moderns, led by Richard Bentley, proposed that the "modern" inventions of classical scholarship and archaeology gave them a superior insight into the past; the ancients, marshaled by Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, held out for a more direct imitation of antiquity and opposed the new scholarship with all the force of their satire and invective. Levine demonstrates that the ancients and the moderns influenced each other in powerful ways, and had much more in common than they knew. Chronicling a critical episode in the development of modem scholarship, The Battle of the Books illuminates the roots of present-day controversies about the role of the classics in the curriculum and the place of the humanities in education.
Author : Helen Damico
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317732022
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline written by Helen Damico and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: Volume 2: Literature and Philology is the second volume of three that present Biographies of scholars whose work influenced the study of the Middle Ages and transformed it into the discipline known as Medieval Studies. Volume 2 provides thirty~two accounts of men and women from the sixteenth century to the twentieth who developed medieval philology and literature into a profession. Their subject deals with the languages and literatures of greater Europe from about the seventh century through the fifteenth and includes Celtic, Scandinavian, Germanic, and Romance nations.
