The Renown'd History of Valentine and Orson
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Release : 1783
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 1783
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Release : 1728
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Author : Benjamin Tabart
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 1813
Category : Chivalry
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Author : Adam Fox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0192508806
The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns in the late eighteenth. It explores the development of the Scottish book trade in general and the production of slight and popular texts in particular. Focusing on the means by which these works reached a wide audience, it illuminates the nature of their circulation in both urban and rural contexts. Specific chapters examine single-sheet imprints such as ballads and gallows speeches, newssheets and advertisements, as well as the little pamphlets that contained almanacs and devotional works, stories and songs. The book demonstrates just how much more of this literature was once printed than now survives and argues that Scotland had a much larger market for such material than has been appreciated. By illustrating the ways in which Scottish printers combined well-known titles from England with a distinctive repertoire of their own, The Press and the People transforms our understanding of popular literature in early modern Scotland and its contribution to British culture more widely.
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1750
Category : Chivalry
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 1890
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : anboco
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3736408838
Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten-year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. He is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's work was crucial in legitimizing the literary use of the Middle English vernacular at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.
Author : John Lane
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 1890
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Author : Chaucer Society (London, England)
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 1890
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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 373404071X
Reproduction of the original: Chaucer ́s Works by Geoffrey Chaucer