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1992

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Thomas Scott's 'The Force Of Truth': A Diplomatic Edition From The First And Final Editions With Introduction And Notes, Gordon Bruce Rumford Jan 1992

Thomas Scott's 'The Force Of Truth': A Diplomatic Edition From The First And Final Editions With Introduction And Notes, Gordon Bruce Rumford

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Among the many influential preachers and writers of the Evangelical Revival in the Church of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was Thomas Scott (1747-1821). The most widely read of all his publications was his 1779 Force of Truth which went through 12 editions in his lifetime. This thesis presents a diplomatic edition of that work, based on the 1821 Edinburgh imprint and includes the major textual variants from the first 1779 London edition, with an introduction and annotations.


'The Book Of Mutual Love' Of Adam Of Perseigne: A Translation With A Revised Critical Edition And Commentaries (France), Bryan Trussler Jan 1992

'The Book Of Mutual Love' Of Adam Of Perseigne: A Translation With A Revised Critical Edition And Commentaries (France), Bryan Trussler

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The thesis, a translation of The Book of Mutual Love by the Cistercian Adam of Perseign (abbot 1188-1221), is based on the edition by Gaetano Raciti, but presents a revised form of that edition and includes both notes on the revisions and a commentary on the translation. It is supplemented with a full bibliography of known studies on Adam and an index of Scriptural citations. The introduction puts the treatise into its historical context, with a biography of Adam—the first in English—and a full explication of the structures of the treatise. Adam composed The Book of Mutual Love at the …