Download or read book Stories from English history written by Alfred John Church and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton written by Valerie Hotchkiss and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark collection of early English books, with many gorgeous illustrations
Download or read book Caxton s Trace written by William Kuskin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, the first such work on Caxton and his contemporaries, consists of ten original essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions of audience, translation, politics, and genre, to the modern fascination with Caxton's books.
Download or read book The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye written by Raoul Lefèvre and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World of the Book written by Des Cowley and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebration of the book drawing on the collections of the State Library of Victoria.
Download or read book The History of Reynard the Fox written by Edward Arber and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Caxton and Early Printing in England written by Lotte Hellinga and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work takes a fresh approach to the first 60 years of printing in England by placing Caxton, his contemporaries and the later generations in the broad context of the history of book production between the middle of the 15th century and the Reformation.
Download or read book The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers A Facsimile Reproduction of the First Book Printed in England by William Caxton in 1477 written by William Caxton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Download or read book The Book of the Craft of Dying and Other Early English Tracts Concerning Death written by Frances Margaret Mary Comper and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yellow Eyes written by Rutherford George Montgomery and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 2001-03-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far back in the wildest of the mountain country hides Yellow Eyes, the great mountain lion. Beautiful and cruel, like all big cats, Yellow Eyes and his mate, are tawny shadows lurking in the forest. In Rutherford Montgomery's stories animals are animals, not beasts playing the parts of human beings.
Download or read book Caxton s Golden Legend written by Jacobus (de Voragine) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume I of the first scholarly edition of the Golden Legend, the largest and most elaborate production of the first printer in English, William Caxton. It is an English translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea (ca. 1267), a collection of legends for the feasts of saints (the Sanctorale) and other major days of the liturgical year (the Temporale). The Legenda aurea was one of the most popular and influential books in the later medieval Western world; it circulated widely, and was repeatedly translated into many vernacular languages. This volume reproduces Caxton's original text of the Temporale with modern punctuation and capitalization, notes on content, syntax and lexis, a detailed glossary, and an index of proper names. Caxton's complex combination of sources is given particular attention: the principal one was a little-known reworking of the French translation made by Jean de Vignay, but he also used the Latin original and a previous English translation, the Gilte Legende, and made some personal additions. The Introduction considers the structure of the entire book that Caxton created, but focuses on the Temporale and the set of Old Testament legends that will follow in volume 2. It discusses their sources and language, highlighting the differences between the first two volumes and the notable number of new words and senses. It also gives a detailed bibliographic account of this printing in its historical context and descriptions of all surviving copies.
Download or read book Caxton s Mirrour of the World written by Oliver Herbert Prior and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caxton and His World written by Norman Francis Blake and published by London : Deutsch. This book was released on 1969 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose written by William Caxton and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses was the work of William Caxton, not just England’s first printer but also a successful merchant, diplomat, and one of the most prolific translators of the fifteenth century. Extremely popular in the late Middle Ages, the stories in the Metamorphoses featured in works by Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate.Caxton’s translation, which survives only in a single manuscript now in Magdalene College, Cambridge, was made not from the original Latin but from a prose version of the French Ovide moralisé, a chivalric adaptation which includes allegorical and historical interpretations of the fables as well as additional classical tales. In the fifteenth century, Burgundian chivalric taste influenced the proliferation of the prose romance, and this genre was, in turn, sought as the height of English literary fashion. The Booke of Ovyde is thus a perfect example of how Caxton both reflected and influenced literary tastes of his day.This critical edition, the first of the entire work, seeks to encourage the study of Caxton’s Ovyde, both as an example of the late-medieval mise en prose and as a significant part of Caxton’s considerable oeuvre. It also serves as an entry point into the complex textual tradition of medieval Ovidian commentaries.
Download or read book William Caxton written by George Duncan Painter and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1977 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this biography I have described and discussed every known Caxton document and edition, both intrinsically and in relation to the events, persons, and movements of contemporary history in which Caxton was so intimately involved. I have tried to rectify the disconcertingly many established and hitherto unsuspected errors of fact or inference in the work of WIlliam Blades, E.G. Duff, W.J.B. Crotch and others, to bring new light and truth to all aspects of Caxton's career from independent study of the primary sources, and to write for the general reader, the student, and the specialist scholar alike. New conclusions are reached on Caxton's family connections, his early activities as apprentice in London and cloth-trader at Bruges, his appointment and fall as Governor of the English merchants in the Low Countries, his diplomatic missions in the protracted trade negotiations of the 1460s, his discovery of his vocation for writing anf printing, his relationships with his instructor Johann Veldener and Colard Mansion his associate, and the foundation and chronology of his first press at Bruges. I show that it was from Mansion and the Bruges scribal tradition that Caxton borrowed and adapted his practices, otherwise unique among fifteenth-century printers, of writing his own translations for publication, obtaining commissions for these and other works from royal or noble patrons, and introducing them with original prologues and epilogues as a vehicle for political or personal propaganda on behalf of his clients. Caxton's hitherto unrealised function as a Yorkist and Tudor propagandist is explored in detail as a major key to his entire career as a printer. New information is given on the sources and authorship of Caxton texts previously misattributed, and dates are supplied on new typographical and other evidence for many of Caxton's undated editions."--Foreword.
Download or read book The Malory Debate written by Bonnie Wheeler and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminal essays on one of the most crucial issues in Arthurian studies.
Download or read book Mirror of the World written by Meg Roland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy’s second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era—the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The production of world maps in England, however, was notably absent during this "Ptolemaic revival." As a result, the impact of Ptolemy’s text on English geographical thought has been obscured and minimalized, with scholars speculating a possible English indifference to or isolation from European geographic developments. Tracing English geographical thought through the material culture of literary and popular texts, this study provides evidence for the reception and transmission of Ptolemaic-based geography in England during a critical period of geographic innovation and synthesis, one that laid the foundation for modern geographical representation. With evidence from prose romance, book illustration, theatrical performance, cosmological ceilings, and almanacs, Mirror of the World proposes a new, interdisciplinary literary and cartographic history of the influence of Ptolemaic geography in England, one that reveals the lively integration of geographic concepts through narrative and non-cartographic visual forms.
