The Uses of Script and Print, 1300–1700 (review)

Cambridge: Cambridge up, 2004 298 pp. u.s. $70.00 cloth. Since there aren't many jokes in the book, I should probably point out the two I spotted. According to Christopher Marsh, "Greensleeves" has "recently been voted the most annoying telephone hold tune in England" and th...

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Published inEnglish studies in Canada Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 212 - 215
Main Author Slights, William W. E
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Edmonton Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English 01.09.2007
ESC: English Studies in Canada
Subjects
15th century
Adultery
Authorship
Bible
Communication
English language
Essays
Historians
Humor
Libraries
Literary devices
Printing machinery
Protestant Reformation
Readers
Religion
Stress
Telephones
Websites
Writers
United Kingdom > UK
England
Europe
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Summary:Cambridge: Cambridge up, 2004 298 pp. u.s. $70.00 cloth. Since there aren't many jokes in the book, I should probably point out the two I spotted. According to Christopher Marsh, "Greensleeves" has "recently been voted the most annoying telephone hold tune in England" and the editor of a website on stress management has said, "Every time it comes on the line, I want to smash the phone with a pick-axe" (176). [...]the so-called "Wicked Bible" of 1631 printed the seventh commandment as "^ou shalt commit adultery" (137). [...]in Part I, James G. Clark provides a balanced, detailed account of the extent of English Benedictine acquisitions of printed texts (which began more quickly than acquisitions by university libraries) and Benedictine involvement with printing in general, particularly at the abbeys of St Albans and St Augustine's, Canterbury.
ISSN:0317-0802
1913-4835
1913-4835
DOI:10.1353/esc.0.0062