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Merton College Library
ISBN: PB: 9781851245390, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2020
144 pp., 22x17.3 cm, 85 colour illus.
The Merton library is rightly known for its antiquity, its beautiful medieval and early modern architecture and fittings and for its remarkable and important collection of manuscripts and rare books, yet a nineteenth-century plan to tear the medieval...
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Domestic Herbal Plants for the Home in the Seventeenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9781851245130, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2020
256 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 60 colour illus.
In the seventeenth century, even the most elaborate and fashionable gardens had areas set aside for growing herbs, fruit, vegetables and flowers for domestic use, while those of more modest establishments were vital to the survival of the household....
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£25,00
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Designing English
ISBN: HB: 9781851244751, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2018
224 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 92 colour illus.
Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange the words and images on the page in each manuscript?...
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Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages
ISBN: HB: 9781851244768, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2017
112 pp., 17x11 cm
"For a zitty face. Take urine eight days old and heat it over the fire; wash your face with it morning and night". In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some...
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Mapping Shakespeare's World
ISBN: PB: 9781851242573, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
208 pp., 25x21 cm, 110 colour illus.
The locations of Shakespeare's plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London, which he and his audience inhabited, but always in...
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Shakespearean Botanical
ISBN: HB: 9781851244379, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
208 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm, 60 colour illus.
When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In "Romeo and Jul...
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£12,99
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Ware's Victorian Dictionary of Slang and Phrase
ISBN: PB: 9781851244485, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
288 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm
Acutely aware of the changes in English usage at the close of the Victorian era, the lexicographer James Redding Ware (1832-1909) decided to record for posterity new and archaic words and phrases from all walks of life, from the curses in common use...
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From Downing Street to the Trenches First-Hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916
ISBN: HB: 9781851243938, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2014
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 16 colour plates
Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be "the safest place"? These compelling eye-witness accoun...
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Pick of the Bunch The Story of Twelve Treasured Flowers
ISBN: HB: 9781851243037, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2009
224 pp., 19.4x19.4 cm, 70 colour illus.
The list of favorite flowers has remained remarkably constant over the centuries. From late-sixteenth, early seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish flower-pieces we can see what were considered desirable at that time: the rose, iris, carnation and lil...
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