medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Revd Gordon Plumb <[log in to unmask]>
> Lauwers, Michel, ed. La dîme, l'Église et la société féodale.
Collection d'études médiévales de Nice, 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012.
Pp. 634. EUR 65. ISBN: 978-2-503-54525-7.
note the size of the thing and the price.
i never thought that i would be championing an established King of Gougers
publisher like Brepols for its "relatively reasonable" pricing, but here we
have a 634 page HB for 65 euros (= $84.422401 US).
Brepols "puts up" (in the phrase that its rep at K'zoo one year used to me)
more books than any publisher in Europe (Springer?), and the physical quality
is consistently quite high (as is the quality of the subject matter).
i've not seen their books, but would imagine that the LUP also "puts up" a
decent quality product as well.
the new Bede translation runs 343pp. and sells (or doesn't sell, as the case
may be) for £75.00 (= $114.503178 US).
(what's the math on that difference, Bill? --arithmetic gives me a headache)
is Britain a more expensive place to run a publishing game than, say,
Belgium?
i doubt it.
does the Lauwers volume appeal to a larger potential audience (and thus might
sell better) than, say, the Bede translation?
i doubt it.
which one of the two is more likely to be chosen as a supplementary --or even
a primary-- text book (assuming that it were available at a reasonable
price)?
how many teachers on this list would even *consider* the Lauwers as a text, as
opposed to those who would at least consider the Bede?
how are we to account for the LUP Gouge, compared to the "more
reasonable/traditional" Brepols one?
the Stars?
business incompetence?
i'm just axing.
c
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