> Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 22:32:05 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Dennis D. Martin" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: reprints
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> For some time I have been wishing that the _Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis_ by
> Adam of Eynsham might be republished in English translation alone for
> classroom use. Adam's Life of St. Hugh covers so many aspects of
> medieval religious culture that one could teach quite a range of things
> from it. When I contacted Oxford U. Press about this, they asked, as
> publishers do, how widespread the interest in this might be, how many
> copies would my colleagues use.
>
> Therefore, I would like to ask list members if they could ever imagine
> themselves using this as an assigned text and if so, about how many
> copies a year they might use. Replies can be sent directly to me at
>
> [log in to unmask]
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> and I will save them, tabulate them, and pass
> them on in the hope of convincing OUP to give us an inexpensive paperback
> edition (or perhaps I could interest the Medieval Academy's Reprints for
> Teaching series in negotiating for rights).
>
> I have a similar question about Gerhart Ladner, _The Idea of Reform_
> (1959, 1967). Would anyone out there besides me make use of this if it
> were reprinted in the MART series? I have suggested it in the past but
> without any "hard numbers." I would be eager to have it in print again.
>
> Dennis Martin
> Loyola University Chicago
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On Life of St Hugh
I would find it very useful
Dr John France, Dept of History, University, Swansea SA2 8PP
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