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Author: Jean F. Preston
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis practical guide to handwritings in English features 31 plates of 33 manuscripts along with their transcriptions. Together they illustrate many diverse hands from the formal Textura used by medieval scribes to the Secretary and Italic of Queen Elizabeth I's time and later. Many plates are accomp
Author: Kip Sperry
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780806308463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques for reading early American documents, provides samples of alphabets and letter forms, and defines terms and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, and church records.
Author: J. Daybell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1137006064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
Author: Bridget Cusack
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780472066865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich compendium of historical texts that reflect the English spoken by ordinary citizens of the early modern period
Author: Anita Auer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-07-16
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1139992031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLetter Writing and Language Change outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis, both in theory and practice. The chapters in this volume make use of insights from all three 'Waves of Variation Studies', and many of them, either implicitly or explicitly, look at specific aspects of the language of the letter writers in an effort to discover how those writers position themselves and how they attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to construct social identities. The letters are largely from people in the lower strata of social structure, either to addressees of the same social status or of a higher status. In this sense the question of the use of 'standard' and/or 'nonstandard' varieties of English is in the forefront of the contributors' interest. Ultimately, the studies challenge the assumption that there is only one 'legitimate' and homogenous form of English or of any other language.
Author: Wendy Scase
Publisher: New Medieval Literatures
Published: 2001-06-14
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780198187387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.
Author: Joe Nickell
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0813182719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetecting Forgery reveals the complete arsenal of forensic techniques used to detect forged handwriting and alterations in documents and to identify the authorship of disputed writings. Joe Nickell looks at famous cases such as Clifford Irving's "autobiography" of Howard Hughes and the Mormon papers of document dealer Mark Hoffman, as well as cases involving works of art. Detecting Forgery is a fascinating introduction to the growing field of forensic document examination and forgery detection.
Author: Grace Ioppolo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1134300069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences.
Author: John A. Wagner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-02-09
Total Pages: 404
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVoices of Shakespeare's England offers students and public library patrons over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character, personalities, and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Voices of Shakespeare's England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life helps readers explore the era that produced, among other things, the world's greatest playwright. It brings together excerpts from over 50 primary documents written in William Shakespeare's lifetime, including letters, literature, speeches and polemics, official reports, and descriptive narratives. Voices of Shakespeare's England includes the works of Shakespeare himself, as well as other poets and playwrights, but it also expands beyond the literary world to cover politics, religion, economics, social change, and the royal court. By allowing Shakespeare's contemporaries to speak in their own voices, it offers an illuminating look at the breadth of Elizabethan society, including major historic events in England as well as Scotland, Ireland, the European continent, and even the new world of America.
Author: Angela Andreani
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-31
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1351764241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death of Francis Walsingham, the place of principal secretary remained vacant for six years. Through original sources in the collections of the State Papers and Cecil Papers, this study reconstructs the activities of the clerks and secretaries who worked in close contact with the Queen at court. An estimated fifty people, many unidentified, saw to every minute detail of the production of official documents and letters in an array of offices, rooms and locations within and outside the court. The book introduces the staff of the Elizabethan writing offices as a community of shared knowledge with a privileged and constant access to papers of state, working behind the scenes of court display and high politics. While the production of the state papers is explored as a means to re-construct the functioning of the inner mechanisms of state, it also provides a lens through which to access the knowledge of the administration in a pre-bureaucratic age.
