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Book Synopsis English Handwriting, 1400-1650 by : Jean F. Preston
Download or read book English Handwriting, 1400-1650 written by Jean F. Preston and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide to handwritings in English features 31 plates of 33 manuscripts along with their transcriptions. Together they illustrate many diverse hands from the formal Textura used by medieval scribes to the Secretary and Italic of Queen Elizabeth I's time and later. Many plates are accomp
Book Synopsis Reading Early American Handwriting by : Kip Sperry
Download or read book Reading Early American Handwriting written by Kip Sperry and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques for reading early American documents, provides samples of alphabets and letter forms, and defines terms and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, and church records.
Book Synopsis The Material Letter in Early Modern England by : J. Daybell
Download or read book The Material Letter in Early Modern England written by J. Daybell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
Book Synopsis Everyday English 1500-1700 by : Bridget Cusack
Download or read book Everyday English 1500-1700 written by Bridget Cusack and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich compendium of historical texts that reflect the English spoken by ordinary citizens of the early modern period
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology by : Peter Beal
Download or read book A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology written by Peter Beal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bespr. in Book collector 57(2008)4
Book Synopsis Letter Writing and Language Change by : Anita Auer
Download or read book Letter Writing and Language Change written by Anita Auer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter Writing and Language Change outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis, both in theory and practice. The chapters in this volume make use of insights from all three 'Waves of Variation Studies', and many of them, either implicitly or explicitly, look at specific aspects of the language of the letter writers in an effort to discover how those writers position themselves and how they attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to construct social identities. The letters are largely from people in the lower strata of social structure, either to addressees of the same social status or of a higher status. In this sense the question of the use of 'standard' and/or 'nonstandard' varieties of English is in the forefront of the contributors' interest. Ultimately, the studies challenge the assumption that there is only one 'legitimate' and homogenous form of English or of any other language.
Book Synopsis New Medieval Literatures by : Wendy Scase
Download or read book New Medieval Literatures written by Wendy Scase and published by New Medieval Literatures. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.
Download or read book Detecting Forgery written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detecting Forgery reveals the complete arsenal of forensic techniques used to detect forged handwriting and alterations in documents and to identify the authorship of disputed writings. Joe Nickell looks at famous cases such as Clifford Irving's "autobiography" of Howard Hughes and the Mormon papers of document dealer Mark Hoffman, as well as cases involving works of art. Detecting Forgery is a fascinating introduction to the growing field of forensic document examination and forgery detection.
Book Synopsis Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood by : Grace Ioppolo
Download or read book Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood written by Grace Ioppolo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences.
Book Synopsis Voices of Shakespeare's England by : John A. Wagner
Download or read book Voices of Shakespeare's England written by John A. Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices of Shakespeare's England offers students and public library patrons over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character, personalities, and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Voices of Shakespeare's England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life helps readers explore the era that produced, among other things, the world's greatest playwright. It brings together excerpts from over 50 primary documents written in William Shakespeare's lifetime, including letters, literature, speeches and polemics, official reports, and descriptive narratives. Voices of Shakespeare's England includes the works of Shakespeare himself, as well as other poets and playwrights, but it also expands beyond the literary world to cover politics, religion, economics, social change, and the royal court. By allowing Shakespeare's contemporaries to speak in their own voices, it offers an illuminating look at the breadth of Elizabethan society, including major historic events in England as well as Scotland, Ireland, the European continent, and even the new world of America.
Book Synopsis The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office by : Angela Andreani
Download or read book The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office written by Angela Andreani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death of Francis Walsingham, the place of principal secretary remained vacant for six years. Through original sources in the collections of the State Papers and Cecil Papers, this study reconstructs the activities of the clerks and secretaries who worked in close contact with the Queen at court. An estimated fifty people, many unidentified, saw to every minute detail of the production of official documents and letters in an array of offices, rooms and locations within and outside the court. The book introduces the staff of the Elizabethan writing offices as a community of shared knowledge with a privileged and constant access to papers of state, working behind the scenes of court display and high politics. While the production of the state papers is explored as a means to re-construct the functioning of the inner mechanisms of state, it also provides a lens through which to access the knowledge of the administration in a pre-bureaucratic age.
Book Synopsis A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song by William Bathe by : Kevin C. Karnes
Download or read book A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song by William Bathe written by Kevin C. Karnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although unjustly neglected by modern writers, William Bathe‘s contributions to music pedagogy in late sixteenth-century England were profound. Bathe‘s A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song (1596) not only includes the first explication of a four-syllable, non-hexachordal solmization method published by an English writer (a system similar to that which would become the standard in England during the seventeenth century) but also outlines a combinatorial method for composing canons that is remarkably forward-looking in both conception and design. In addition to providing the first modern edition of Bathe‘s treatise, the volume examines the complicated compilation and publication histories of the book, the historical and theoretical foundations of Bathe‘s contributions, and the relationship between the 1596 book and Bathe‘s 1584 treatise A Briefe Introduction to the True Arte of Musicke (the extant text of which is included as an appendix).
Download or read book History Play written by Rodney Bolt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodney Bolt's delightful life of Marlowe plays out a surprising solution to an enduring literary mystery, bringing the spirit of Shakespeare alive as we've never seen it before. Rodney Bolt's book is not an attempt to prove that, rather than dying at 29 in a tavern brawl, Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to Europe, and went on to write the work attributed to Shakespeare. Instead, it takes that as the starting point for a playful and brilliantly written "fake biography" of Marlowe, which turns out to be a life of the Bard as well. Using real historical sources (as well as the occasional red herring) plus a generous dose of speculation, Bolt paints a rich and rollicking picture of Elizabethan life. As we accompany Marlowe into the halls of academia, the society of the popular English players traveling Europe, and the dangerous underworld of Elizabethan espionage, a fascinating and almost plausible life story emerges, along with a startlingly fresh look at the plays and poetry we know as Shakespeare's. Tapping into centuries of speculation about the man behind the work, about whom so few facts are known for sure, Rodney Bolt slyly winds the lives of two beloved playwrights into one.
Book Synopsis The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ by : Nicholas Love
Download or read book The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ written by Nicholas Love and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 2005: At a time when the church sought to control and constrain lay access to vernacular and paramystical texts, the author’s translation, sanctioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, met a pressing need for religious guidance among lay people. It became one of the most copied works of the fifteenth century.
Book Synopsis Poor Women in Shakespeare by : Fiona McNeill
Download or read book Poor Women in Shakespeare written by Fiona McNeill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual study of the representation of poor and homeless women in Shakespeare's plays.
Book Synopsis Bess of Hardwick’s Letters by : Alison Wiggins
Download or read book Bess of Hardwick’s Letters written by Alison Wiggins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527–1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison Wiggins uncovers the wide range of uses to which Bess put letters: they were vital to her engagement in the overlapping realms of politics, patronage, business, legal negotiation, news-gathering and domestic life. Much more than a case study of Bess's letters, the discussions of language, handwriting and materiality found here have fundamental implications for the way we approach and read Renaissance letters. Wiggins offers readings which show how Renaissance letters communicated meaning through the interweaving linguistic, palaeographic and material forms, according to socio-historical context and function. The study goes beyond the letters themselves and incorporates a range of historical sources to situate circumstances of production and reception, which include Account Books, inventories, needlework and textile art and architecture. The study is therefore essential reading for scholars in historical linguistics, historical pragmatics, palaeography and manuscript studies, material culture, English literature and social history.
Book Synopsis Richard III & Murder in the Tower by : Peter A Hancock
Download or read book Richard III & Murder in the Tower written by Peter A Hancock and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard III is accused of murdering his nephews (the 'Princes in the Tower') in order to usurp the throne of England. Since Tudor times he has been painted as the 'black legend', the murderous uncle. However, the truth is much more complicated and interesting. Rather than looking at all the killings Richard III did not commit, this book focuses on the one judicial murder for which we know that he was responsible. On Friday 13 June 1483, William, Lord Hastings was hustled from a meeting of the Royal Council and summarily executed on Tower Green within the confines of the Tower of London. This book sheds light on the mystery of this precipitate and unadvised action by the then Duke of Gloucester and reveals the key role of William Catesby in Richard's ascent to the throne of England. It explains his curious actions during that tumultuous summer of three kings and provides an explanation for the fate of the 'Princes in the Tower.'
