Middle English Marvels: Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century. Tara Williams. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. viii + 176 pp. $89.95.
Abstract:discussed are the incunabula and use of print to assert the power of political factions; the humanistic output of a few printers, especially Guyon Boudeville (1541-62); the ensuing monopoly of the Colomiès family (1562-96); and the influence of the Jesuits. In the third and last chapter, the author makes a microanalysis of the languages found in the books printed in Toulouse during the Renaissance, with a special interest in the typology of languages (notably the importance of political and religious works and… Show more
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