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Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Verse and Prose
Inbunden, 1990
2652 kr
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Aims to study the age of Chaucer and the events that shaped his career, and to show how the age made the poet. It also pays considerable attention to the precise poetic means Chaucer used to produce his effects. The writings of Lydgate, Hoccleve, Pecock, Fortescue, Caxton and other unknown writers …
Life on the English Manor
A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
Häftad, 1937
586 kr
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This book gives a picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. H. S. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church in a pattern of customary dues and rights, payments, labours and small …
English Books and Readers 1475 to 1557
Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade from Caxton to the Incorporation of the Stationers' Company
Häftad, 1990
687 kr
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In this classic first volume of English Books and Readers, first published in 1952, H. S. Bennett covers in detail the history of books from Caxton down to the incorporation of the Stationers' Company, discussing the evidence for public literacy, the regulation of the book trade, the demand for …
English Books and Readers 1558-1603: Volume 2
Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Häftad, 1990
586 kr
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In this second volume of his classic English Books and Readers, first published in 1965, H. S. Bennett continues the story down to the end of the reign of Elizabeth I. His purpose is to give an account of the total output of books and pamphlets in this period, irrespective of their qualities as …
English Books and Readers 1603-1640
Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade in the Reigns of James I and Charles I
Häftad, 1990
586 kr
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This third volume of English Books and Readers, first published in 1970, carries the story of the English book trade down to the eve of the Civil War. The author gives an account of the total output of books and pamphlets in the period, irrespective of their qualities as literature.
The Earth in Transition
Patterns and Processes of Biotic Impoverishment
Av H. S. Bennett, George M. Woodwell
Häftad, 2010
830 kr
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Life occurs, as far as we know, only as part of the earthly biosphere. Yet the earth's biotic resources are experiencing a spreading crisis that is leading not only to the most rapid loss of species in the last 65 million years, but also causing abrupt changes in the structure and function of …
The Pastons and their England
Studies in an Age of Transition
Häftad, 1990
586 kr
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The Paston letters have long exercised a tremendous fascination for their capacity to recreate in vivid detail the lives of an ordinary well-to-do fifteenth-century family. H. S. Bennett's classic study recreates beautifully their historical context and offers the additional perspectives provided …
Six Medieval Men and Women
Häftad, 2013
586 kr
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Originally published in 1955, this volume incorporates the substance of the Gregynog Lectures delivered at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth during the Session 1952-3. The text was created to give an account of the lives of a few men and women of the fifteenth century, enabling the …
