The Institute of English Studies is an internationally renowned research centre, specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies and textual scholarship. Our activities include providing post-graduate courses; hosting major collaborative research projects; providing essential research training in book history and palaeography; and facilitating scholarly communities in all areas of English studies.
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T.S. Eliot International Summer School 2012
Open to all with an interest in the life and work of Eliot.
The Museum of Writing is focused on matters central to the historical and theoretical understanding of writing from its invention to the present. The repository showcases materials housed at the Senate House Library at the University of London. It includes cuneiform tablets, hieroglyphics, Roman wax tablets, styli, quills, fountain pens, vellum, papyri, parchment, autographs, piano rolls and more.
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Michelle Brown is professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies, course tutor to the History of the Book MA and a PhD supervisor at the Institute. Michelle's research interests are the role of the book as a cultural medium; the palaeography, codicology, art history and socio-historical context of medieval manuscripts; late antique and early medieval history and the material culture of Europe and the Levant. Art and spirituality, historic and contemporary.
John Ford (1586-1640?) was one of the leading playwrights of the generation following Shakespeare, best known for such plays as The Broken Heart, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and Perkin Warbeck. This is the first collected edition of John Ford's works since 1869. All texts have been freshly edited from the original Quarto editions, which have been collated to identify press corrections...
