The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
Author: Richard Gameson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 052178218X

26 expert contributions to this volumes discuss the manuscript book from a variety of angles: as physical object (manufacture, format, writing, and decoration), its purpose and readership, and as a vehicle for particular types of text (history, sermons, medical treatises, law and administration, music).

A Reference Guide for English Studies

A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 872
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520051614

This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal.

British Library History

British Library History
Author: Denis F. Keeling
Publisher: London : The Association
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1983
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The Exultet in Southern Italy

The Exultet in Southern Italy
Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 385
Release: 1996
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0195095278

And why on many of the later surviving documents were the pictures turned upside-down in relation to the text? Finally, and most basically, why produce these documents at all? What does it mean to 'lavish such care and talent on manuscripts to be used but once a year?

The Beneventan Chant

The Beneventan Chant
Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1989
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521343107

Thomas Kelly's major study of the Beneventan chant reinstates one of the oldest surviving bodies of Western music: the Latin church music of southern Italy as it existed before the spread of Gregorian chant.