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Levi Fox, ed.
English Historical Scholarship in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A record of the papers delivered at a Conference arranged by the Dugdale Society to commemorate the tercentenary of the publication of Dugdale’s Antiquities of Warwickshire.
Publisher: Oxford U.P. for the Dugdale Society, 1956.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: University Press, Oxford.
Size: 177x251x20mm.
Page count: text ix,154pp; plates 2pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: ex‑lib. York; dustjacket sealed under protective transparent plastic, so not too heavily worn, but the plastic itself is quite grubby; page edges dusty; the usual library marks and stamps, some pencilled marks in the margins on at least 15 pages, and at least 2 have some small stains.

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Weight without packaging: 668g.

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No particular medievalist emphasis. Contents:
Cheney, Intro. — Dugdale tercentenary;
Wernham, Public records in the 16th & 17th cc.;
Maclagan, Genealogy & heraldry in the 16th & 17th cc.;
Styles, Politics & historical research in the early 17th c.;
Cronne, Study & use of charters by English scholars in the 17th c — Henry Spelman & William Dugdale;
Piggott, Antiquarian thought in the 16th & 17th cc.;
Powicke, Galbraith, Knowles, Jacob, Value of 16th & 17th c. scholarship to modern historical research.
Appendices: Note on the copies of the Rous Roll; Programme of the conference, 18-10 July 1956; The Dugdale Society.

Introduction: pp
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: 2 monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: pp
Index: yes

See also | Historiography | Medievalism |
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