![]() In the UK, there are perhaps 700 varieties, “from soft cheeses like the fresh and delicate goat’s milk Perroche to full-on, funky washed-rinds like the aptly named Renegade Monk”. Now, according to Palmer, we are once again in an era of miraculous resurgence for British cheese. In November 1935, TS Eliot wrote a letter to the Times suggesting that good British cheese, from Stilton to “noble old cheshire”, was on the brink of extinction. ![]() ![]() Yet a few centuries later, with industrialisation, the abundance and diversity were waning. ![]() Some of those sold in late medieval England included nettle (equivalent to Cornish Yarg today), cream cheese, morning milk cheese (similar to single gloucester) and angelot cheese, a reblochon-style creation made from the very creamiest milk. An Italian expert wrote that Britain’s rich pastures made the country’s cheeses excellent and abundant. The 15th century, for example, seems to have been a golden era for British cheese, when hard, Parmesan-like cheeses were sold in foreign markets on the back of the wool trade. Palmer suggests that the long history of cheese in Britain is not one of simple decline or progress but of cycles of excellence followed by periods of compromise and disappointment. The expert contributions delve into such fascinating topics as archives and paperwork, and present new chapters on Arabic script, the Slavic, Canadian, African and Australasian book, new textual technologies, and much more.Ĭontaining a wealth of illustrative examples and case studies to dramatize the exciting history of the book, the text is designed for academics, students and anyone interested in the subject.The war not only wiped out some of our cheese but changed the very nature of those that survived Ned Palmer The text explores the many approaches to the book from the early clay tablets of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia to today’s burgeoning electronic devices. Already well established as a standard survey of the historiography of the book, this new, expanded edition draws on a decade of advanced scholarship to present current research on paper, printing, binding, scientific publishing, the history of maps, music and print, the profession of authorship and lexicography. ![]() The revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book’s history, through print and electronic text. The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded ![]()
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