John Bale's Index of British and Other Writers

by John Bale

The Index Britanniae Scriptorum, in which Bale zealously collected materials at a date when materials were accessible which in a few years morewere scattered and largely lost, is invaluable to students and editors of medieval texts, and current renewed interest in 16th- (and 17th-) century antiquarian scholarship makes Bale's work much consulted nowadays. It has, however, been long unobtainable outside Rare Books rooms of university libraries, and its reappearance here, with a new introduction by James Carley, will be widely welcomed by medievalists.

579 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1986

About the author

John Bale (1495 - 1563) was an English churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bale


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