medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I was so overwrought by the misspelling of an exploited author's name
that I misspelled Kegan. I should have higher standards than they
demonstrate.
DW
Christopher Crockett wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> From: Diana Wright <[log in to unmask]>
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>> I was offered a chance to rewrite the review, which meant removing all
>>
> criticism of the press.
>
>
>>>> I have just had a review rejected by H-Catholic of Claude Reignier
>>>>
> Condor (sic) _The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem_. This is a Keegan Paul
> reprint of an 1897 publication which misspells the author's name on the
> cover.
>
>
>>>> H-Net reviews are apparently meant to please the publishers.
>>>>
>
>
>
> Keegan Paul, a vererable scholarly British publisher since the end of the 19th
> c., must have been taken over by BrainWorm-Invested Bean-Counters a few years
> ago.
>
> i (as a dealer) got a catalogue from them and was amazed --and amused-- by the
> stuff in their list, all of it outrageously priced, new writings for $200-300,
> reprints of older (frequently *much* older) works in the Public Domain
> starting at $100.
>
> Wallace Budge @ $125 a pop.
>
> wow.
>
> i was looking at my copies of the Dover reprints from the '60s on my shelves,
> wondering how on earth i could Cash Out for 50% of their retail...
>
> i didn't think to look for typos in the authors' names, however.
>
> c
>
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