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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography"”.
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The life of a book: British Library manuscript additional 35157 in historical context
This dissertation is an investigation into the social history of British Library Manuscript Additional 35157 (hereafter Add.35157), which is a late fourteenth-century copy of William Langland's alliterative poem Piers Plowman. Part one contains the text of the dissertation. In chapter 1 a general …
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A study of Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 232: John Lydgate's 'Life of Our Lady'
This thesis consists of a study of MS Hunter 232, or more specifically a study of the marginalia contained within Hunter 232. The study aims to shows the value of marginal annotations in gaining a fuller understanding of a particular manuscript or its users and shows the value of even context-free …
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Thomas Morley and the business of music in Elizabethan England
Thomas Morley’s family background in Norwich and his later life in London placed him amongst the educated, urban, middle classes. Rising literacy and improving standards of living in English cities helped to develop a society in which amateur music-making became a significant leisure activity, …
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Dreaming in whispering groves: an inquiry into the reader's response to the book as a published physical object with reference to the rise of the eighteenth century novel, modern critical theory and the processes and technologies of production, transmission and reception
Dreaming In Whispering Groves is an investigation into the production, transmission and reception of the book-as-object with specific reference to nine eighteenth century novels over four centuries: Robinson Crusoe; The Adventures Of The Count de Vinevil; Pamela; David Simple; Amelia; Betsy …
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Collecting, communicating, and commemorating: The significance of Thomas Plume's manuscript collection, left to his Library in Maldon, est. 1704
… who left them with a substantial body of books and pamphlets to the Library he endowed in Maldon. They take the form of notebooks and papers complied by a number of different clergymen, in particular Dr Robert Boreman (d.1675) and Dr Edward Hyde (1607-1659), in addition to Plume. The …
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Guillaume de Machaut and the mise en page of medieval French sung verse
… of words and music, and the role of reading, writing, and memory in society.
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Pandatopia: a novel with a critical commentary, TEOTWAWKI
Pandatopia: a novel with a critical commentary, TEOTWAWKI comprises a novel of my own creation, alongside a commentary that reflects on aspects of the creative process and aims to contextualise my work within the genre of Science Fiction. Pandatopia is set in a world where half the global …
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Publish and be blessed : a case study in early Pentecostal publishing history
This dissertation argues that a major factor in Pentecostalism's rapid world-wide growth was the emergence of a strong literary, as distinct from oral, tradition. From its earliest days the movement gave birth to a plethora of publications and publishing houses, mostly operating by faith, that …
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'Half fashion and half passion': the life of publisher Henry Colburn
This thesis focuses on some of the most significant and least understood aspects of the life of London publisher Henry Colburn (c.1784-1855). Its purposes are to correct the misinformation currently in circulation, to introduce new information, and to reassess Colburn‘s reputation and …
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The attrition of dogma in the legal press under Brezhnev : Literaturnaya gazeta (Second Section), 1967-1971
The purpose of this thesis is to establish the contribution of the Soviet weekly, Literaturnaya gazeta, to the debunking of official dogmas during the Brezhnev years. Launched in 1967, the second section of Literaturnaya gazeta has frequently been dismissed as a mere safety valve, highly controlled …