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Splendidly produced catalogue to the exhibition of early Bibles and Reformation texts staged in the USA in 1996-97. The beautiful illustrations include reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, title pages and extracts of text (18 of them in colour) which demonstrate the striking magnificence of much early print. These are accompanied by an excellent commentary by the most distinguished of US scholars, who demonstrates the enormous influence of the Bible in the religious revolution of the 16th century adn the way in which the vernacular works produced at this time have shaped Western culture ever since. (Kirkus UK)

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Jaroslav Pelikan is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of, among other books, Christianity and Classical Culture, The Idea of the University--A Reexamination, The Vindication of Tradition, and Jesus Through the Centuries, all published by Yale University Press. He has received honorary degrees from universities all over the world, as well as medals and awards from many scholarly societies and institutions, including the Jefferson Award of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the highest honor conferred by the U.S. government on a scholar in the humanities. He is currently president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Valerie R. Hotchkiss is J.S. Bridwell Endowed Librarian and associate professor of medieval studies at Southern Methodist University. She is the author of Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross-Dressing in Medieval Europe. David Price is associate professor of Germanic languages at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Janus Secundus: Writing Love in the Renaissance, The Political Dramaturgy of Nicodemus Frischlin, and other studies of Renaissance poetry and art.

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