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HISTORY
Cataloguing Discrepancies
The Printed York Breviary of 1493
NEW
Andrew Hughes in collaboration with
Matthew Cheung Salisbury and Heather Robbins
Cataloguing Discrepancies reviews the description
and cataloguing, from the early eighteenth century
to the present day, of an early English Breviary,
printed in 1493. With a critical eye, Andrew Hughes
summarizes the work that has been done on this
liturgical book.
Based on the discrepancies and errors in the existing
catalogues of medieval liturgical books, many of
which repeat erroneous information for generations,
the authors illustrate the defects, problems, and
opportunities encountered when technologies of the
fifteenth and the twenty-first centuries converge.
Andrew Hughes is University Professor Emeritus in
the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of
Toronto.
‘A remarkable work, covering an impressive range
of scholarship old and new on the York Breviary.
The authors set forth a new codicological ground
for this liturgical book’s 1493 edition, with broad
implications for the study of incunabula that are
both exciting and pertinent.’
Graeme M. Boone, The Ohio State University
244 pp / 46 illustrations / 6 x 9 / 2011
Cloth 978-1-4426-4197-6 $55.00 (£38.99)
A Renaissance Education
Schooling in Bergamo 1500–1650
Christopher Carlsmith
Deeply rooted in archival sources, Christopher
Carlsmith’s A Renaissance Education uses a case
study approach to examine educational practices
in the north-eastern Italian city of Bergamo from
1500 to 1650.
His close analysis of civic, ecclesiastical, confraternal,
and family records not only paints a vivid portrait of
how schooling functioned in one city but also explores
this small city’s dynamic interconnections with other
locales and with larger regional processes.
Christopher Carlsmith is an associate professor
in the Department of History at the University of
Massachusetts-Lowell.
‘No scholar of Renaissance and Catholic Reformation
education can afford to miss this important work.’
Paul F. Grendler, Quaderni D’Italianistica
416 pp / 10 illustrations / 6 x 9 / 2010
Cloth 978-0-8020-9254-0 $75.00 (£52.99)
The Matter of Mind
Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes
NEW
Christopher Braider
What influence did René Descartes’ concept of mindbody
dualism have on early modern conceptions
of the self In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider
challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes’
groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century
French culture. He details the broad opposition to
rational self-government among Descartes’ contemporaries,
and attributes conventional links between
Descartes and the myth of the ‘modern subject’ to
post-structuralist assessments.
Forceful and provocative, The Matter of Mind will
encourage lively debate on the norms and discourses
of seventeenth-century philosophy.
Christopher Braider is a professor in the Department
of French and Italian at the University of Colorado at
Boulder.
‘The Matter of Mind will immediately become essential
reading among specialists of French early modern
literature and an important book for all those
interested in early modern history, cognitive and
aesthetic philosophy, and art history.’
Larry Norman, University of Chicago
Approx. 296 pp / 18 illustrations / 6 x 9 / January 2012
Cloth 978-1-4426-4348-2 $75.00 (£48.00)
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