Author: Peter J. Lucas
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
This book offers something new, a full-length study of printing Anglo-Saxon (Old English) from 1566 to 1705, combining analysis of content and form of production. It starts from the end-product and addresses the practical issues of providing for printing Anglo-Saxon authentically, and why this was done. The book tells a story that is largely Cambridge-orientated until Oxford made an impact, largely thanks to Franciscus Junius from Leiden. There is a catalogue of all books containing Anglo-Saxon, with full details of their use of manuscript or printed sources. This information allows us to see how knowledge of Anglo-Saxon grew and developed.
Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley
Author: Peter J. Lucas
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
This book offers something new, a full-length study of printing Anglo-Saxon (Old English) from 1566 to 1705, combining analysis of content and form of production. It starts from the end-product and addresses the practical issues of providing for printing Anglo-Saxon authentically, and why this was done. The book tells a story that is largely Cambridge-orientated until Oxford made an impact, largely thanks to Franciscus Junius from Leiden. There is a catalogue of all books containing Anglo-Saxon, with full details of their use of manuscript or printed sources. This information allows us to see how knowledge of Anglo-Saxon grew and developed.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
This book offers something new, a full-length study of printing Anglo-Saxon (Old English) from 1566 to 1705, combining analysis of content and form of production. It starts from the end-product and addresses the practical issues of providing for printing Anglo-Saxon authentically, and why this was done. The book tells a story that is largely Cambridge-orientated until Oxford made an impact, largely thanks to Franciscus Junius from Leiden. There is a catalogue of all books containing Anglo-Saxon, with full details of their use of manuscript or printed sources. This information allows us to see how knowledge of Anglo-Saxon grew and developed.
Medieval Literature and Culture
Author: Andrew Galloway
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826486576
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
An introductory guide provides a concise overview of medieval literature and its context.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826486576
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
An introductory guide provides a concise overview of medieval literature and its context.
Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660-1781
Author: Richard G. Terry
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198186236
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Concentrating on the period 1660-1781, this book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and howcritics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness. Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past also analyzes the various kinds of occasion on which the contents of the literary past are rehearsed. Discussed, for example, is the rise of Poets' Corner as a national shrine forthe consecration of literary worthies; and the author also considers a wide range of poetic genres that lent themselves to recitals of the literary past: the funeral elegy, the progress-of-poesy poem and the session of the poets poem. The book concludes that the opening up and ordering of theEnglish literary past occurs earlier than is generally supposed; and the same also applies to the process by which women writers achieve their own distinctive form of canonical recognition.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198186236
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Concentrating on the period 1660-1781, this book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and howcritics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness. Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past also analyzes the various kinds of occasion on which the contents of the literary past are rehearsed. Discussed, for example, is the rise of Poets' Corner as a national shrine forthe consecration of literary worthies; and the author also considers a wide range of poetic genres that lent themselves to recitals of the literary past: the funeral elegy, the progress-of-poesy poem and the session of the poets poem. The book concludes that the opening up and ordering of theEnglish literary past occurs earlier than is generally supposed; and the same also applies to the process by which women writers achieve their own distinctive form of canonical recognition.
Aspects of Book Culture in Early Modern England
Author: T.A. Birrell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040245307
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924-2011) was a man of many parts. For most of his working life he was Professor of English Literature in the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he was famous for his lively, humoristic and thought-provoking lectures. He was the author of some very popular literary surveys in Dutch, one of which - a history of English literature - has had seven editions so far. However, 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 lecture for the illustrious ’Association Internationale de Bibliophilie’. The lecture - with a wealth of illustrations - about the British Library as the ’Custodian of the Unique’ gives one a sense of Birrell’s ability to present an audience with a complicated topic in comprehensible, but not simplified, terms. The reviews serve as a statement of principle of how to tackle the subject of ’English readers and books’ and the standards that ought to apply. The articles demonstrate Tom Birrell’s in-depth knowledge, dedication and scholarship. He once said that he felt that he could have talked to the 17th-century London booksellers on an equal footing and his work convinces one that they would have enjoyed these conversations. Aspects of Book Culture was edited by Birrell’s former pupil, colleague, friend and fellow-bibliographer Jos Blom.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040245307
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924-2011) was a man of many parts. For most of his working life he was Professor of English Literature in the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he was famous for his lively, humoristic and thought-provoking lectures. He was the author of some very popular literary surveys in Dutch, one of which - a history of English literature - has had seven editions so far. However, 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 lecture for the illustrious ’Association Internationale de Bibliophilie’. The lecture - with a wealth of illustrations - about the British Library as the ’Custodian of the Unique’ gives one a sense of Birrell’s ability to present an audience with a complicated topic in comprehensible, but not simplified, terms. The reviews serve as a statement of principle of how to tackle the subject of ’English readers and books’ and the standards that ought to apply. The articles demonstrate Tom Birrell’s in-depth knowledge, dedication and scholarship. He once said that he felt that he could have talked to the 17th-century London booksellers on an equal footing and his work convinces one that they would have enjoyed these conversations. Aspects of Book Culture was edited by Birrell’s former pupil, colleague, friend and fellow-bibliographer Jos Blom.
An Inaugural Lecture on the Utility of Anglo-Saxon Literature;
Author: James Ingram
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Sources of Archbishop Parker's Collection of Mss. at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Author: Montague Rhodes James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108011349
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
M. R. James' much-sought-after study of the sources of the Parker manuscript collection at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108011349
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
M. R. James' much-sought-after study of the sources of the Parker manuscript collection at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Old English Scholarship in England from 1566-1800
Author: Eleanor Nathalie Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Yale Studies in English
Author: Eleanor Nathalie Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Recovering Old English
Author: Kees Dekker
Publisher:
ISBN: 1009371703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
This Element Recovering Old English examines the philological activities of scholars involved in the recovery of Old English in the period between c. 1550 and 1830. This Element focuses on four philological pursuits that dominated this recovery: collecting documents, recording the lexicon editing texts and studying the grammar. This Element demonstrates that throughout the vicissitudes of history these four components of humanist philology have formed the backbone of Old English studies and constitute a thread that connects the efforts of early modern philologists with the global interest in Old English that we see today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1009371703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
This Element Recovering Old English examines the philological activities of scholars involved in the recovery of Old English in the period between c. 1550 and 1830. This Element focuses on four philological pursuits that dominated this recovery: collecting documents, recording the lexicon editing texts and studying the grammar. This Element demonstrates that throughout the vicissitudes of history these four components of humanist philology have formed the backbone of Old English studies and constitute a thread that connects the efforts of early modern philologists with the global interest in Old English that we see today.
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 36
Author: Malcolm Godden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521883436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 36 include: The tabernacula of Gregory the Great and the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England by Flora Spiegel; The career of Aldhelm by Michael Lapidge; The name 'Merovingian' and the dating of Beowulf by Walter Goffart; An abbot, an archbishop and the Viking raids of 1006-7 and 1009-12 by Simon Keynes; and Demonstrative behaviour and political communication in later Anglo-Saxon England by Julia Barrow.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521883436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 36 include: The tabernacula of Gregory the Great and the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England by Flora Spiegel; The career of Aldhelm by Michael Lapidge; The name 'Merovingian' and the dating of Beowulf by Walter Goffart; An abbot, an archbishop and the Viking raids of 1006-7 and 1009-12 by Simon Keynes; and Demonstrative behaviour and political communication in later Anglo-Saxon England by Julia Barrow.