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Reform of the script was central to the humanist agenda - this book suggests a new explanation of its international success.

Reform of the script was central to the humanist agenda - this book suggests a new explanation of its international success.

Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital

John Merbecke (c.1505–c.1585) is most famous as the composer of the first musical setting of the English liturgy, The Booke of Common Praier Noted (BCPN), published in 1550. Not only was Merbecke a pioneer in setting English prose to music but also the compiler of the first Concordance of the