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December 09, 2010

Review of English Studies Hearts Exeter Book

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The most recent issue of the Review of English Studies> lauded Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts by Gale R. Owen-Crocker, a recent title by the University of Exeter Press. Owen-Crocker offers a comprehensive guide to accessing and studying historical manuscripts, which reviewer Thomas N. Hall described as, "A clear, reliable, practical and beautifully illustrated introduction to the subject. The book envisions an audience that ranges from advanced undergraduates all the way to established scholars and even graphic artists, and while the undergraduates have the most to gain from the book, there is something here that everyone can learn from."

January 02, 2007

Review: Ralph Ayres' Cookery Book

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Florence Fabricant, writing in the December 27th, 2006 edition of the New York Times offers a brief review of Bodleian Library's Ralph Ayres' Cookery Book, the cookbook of an 18th Century dining hall master from New College, Oxford:

This slender volume reproduces the pages of the original, interpsersing them with botanical illustrations. It offers some dishes that are quite appealing: quince marmalade, rasberry jam, veal rolled with bacon into ovals and roasted on a spit "as with larks" and gingerbread glazed with dark ale.

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February 01, 2006

Press release: Robert Mills, Suspended Animation

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"I'm gonna get medieval on yo' ass." When Marsellus Wallace declares this statement in the film Pulp Fiction, we know he is about to bring down an especially fierce and exacting punishment. But is the cultural gulf between medieval times and the present day actually as wide as we imagine? Robert Mills examines here how medieval literature and images of sexuality, torture, and religious ecstasy resonate today with contemporary issues, revealing that the chasm between medieval times and modernity is smaller than one might imagine.

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