Author: Jennifer M. SheppardPublisher: Oxford [England] : Oxford Bibliographical Society, Bodleian Library
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Buildwas Books
Author: Jennifer M. SheppardPublisher: Oxford [England] : Oxford Bibliographical Society, Bodleian Library
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Buildwas Abbey. (An abridged version of the larger illustrated guide.).
Author: Alexander Hamilton ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
English Medieval Books
Author: Alan CoatesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198207566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This history of the books of Reading Abbey covers the period from the abbey's foundation to its dissolution, and follows up the dispersal of the book collections to c.1610. It provides valuable material on the ways in which books were used, and about the intellectual life of medieval monastery. Alan Coates makes an important contribution to our understanding of the fate of monastic books and book-collecting in the post-Dissolution period.
Registers of Buildwas
Author: The Building Acts and Regulations Applied
Author: C.M.H. BarrittPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317884868
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book forms part of a unique, highly practical and time-saving three volume presentation of the Building Regulations, each book covering all the regulations relating to specific building usage. The chapters of each volume form self-contained units covering all the Regulation requirements applicable to a particular part of a building; thus the reader can ensure that all the Regulations are fully met. Also included is a digest of published standards, guides and technical information as well as reviews of the new Eurocodes currently being introduced. The Building Acts and Regulations Applied: Buildings for Public Assembly and Residential Use covers all the regulations relating to buildings used for public assembly or residential purposes (other than houses and flats), such as theatres, sports stadia, hotels, prisons and halls of residence. It is a useful course companion for BTEC HNC/D and degree courses in building, architecture, surveying, estate management and other built environment disciplines. It is also an ideal reference source for all professionals working in these areas.
The Production of Books in England 1350-1500
Author: Alexandra GillespiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521889790
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.
Buildwas Abbey
Author: Ministry of Public Building and WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
New Medieval Literatures
Author: Wendy ScasePublisher: New Medieval Literatures
ISBN: 9780198187387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.
The European Book in the Twelfth Century
Author: Erik KwakkelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108637574
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The 'long twelfth century' (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided into three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy, and theology. Richly illustrated, the volume provides the first in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon.
How Invention Begins
Author: John H. LienhardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199885567
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies. He traces, for instance, the way in which thousands of people applied their combined inventive genius to airplanes, railroad engines, and automobiles. As he does so, it becomes clear that a collective desire, an upwelling of fascination, a spirit of the times--a Zeitgeist--laid its hold upon inventors. The thing they all sought to create was speed itself. Likewise, Lienhard shows that when we trace the astonishingly complex technology of printing books, we come at last to that which we desire from books--the knowledge, the learning, that they provide. Can we speak of speed or education as inventions? To do so, he concludes, is certainly no greater a stretch than it is to call radio or the telephone an "invention." Throughout this marvelous volume, Lienhard illuminates these webs of insight or inspiration by weaving a fabric of anecdote, history, and technical detail--all of which come together to provide a full and satisfying portrait of the true nature of invention.