Bagrationovsk
Bagrationovsk , town, NW European Russia, formerly in East Prussia, on the Polish border. Its German name was Eylau or Preussisch Eylau. It is a rail terminus and has meat-processing and dairy industries. The town was founded in 1336. In Feb., 1807, it was the site of a bloody, indecisive battle between Napoleon I and the allied Russian and Prussian forces that checked Napoleon's movement toward the Russian frontier. The town is named in honor of Gen. P. I. Bagration, who distinguished himself during the battle.
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'These proverbes yet do last': Lydgate, the fifth earl of Northumberland, and tudor miscellanies from print to manuscript.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Prouerbes of Lydgate printed by Wynkyn de Worde and part of Bodleian MS Arch...The evidence provided by de Worde's edition of the impact of mass...VIII (1510?), the printer Wynkyn de Worde issued a quarto edition of fourteen...
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The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England and Its Sources.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...as complementary and interdependent. Chapter 3, "Wynkyn de Worde and the Title Page," represents the author's most...contribution to current scholarship: her knowledge of Wynkyn de Worde's printing practices and shop appears particularly...
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Rare 1502 hymnal given to UK university library
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/15/2009; 378 words
; ...hymnal was published in London by Wynken de Worde, who was among the first to popularize printed...of printed books, said Wednesday. Wynken de Worde, whose name is also spelled Wynkyn de Worde, was an Alsatian who was employed by William...
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Read Any Good Books Lately?
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/7/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the Dutch pupil who inherited his Westminster Press: Wynkyn de Worde Had as funny a name as I've ever heard. Of what could they have been thinkin', When they called him Wynkyn? Wynkyn moved the press to, of all places, Fleet Street where...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Culture: Radio Choice.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 2/4/2004; 334 words
; ...wasn't for the bizarrely named Wynkyn de Worde, the name of Fleet Street might never have gained such prominence. De Worde, assistant to William Caxton, bought...and comes face to face with de Worde's body in the crypt at St Brides...
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EDITING WOMEN'S VISIONS: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE TRANSMISSION OF FEMALE MYSTICS' TEXTS
Magazine article from: Magistra; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...translated into English as the Orcherd of Syon,(2) and Wynkyn de Worde's publication of Margery Kempe's Book.(3) These...between the late fourteenth and fifteenth century, with Wynkyn de Worde's edition of Margery's book just slipping into...
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Food and Love.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...unmistakably authorial. `Chaucer's Roman de la Rose'? Sylvia Anthony for Susan B. Anthony; Winkin de Worde for Wynkyn de Worde; Scoppi for Scappi, Aran for Aron, Lady Bessingborough for Lady Bessborough.... It is also exasperating...
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Incunabula and their Readers: Printing Selling and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...entirely continental, except for one by Lotte Hellinga on Wynkyn de Worde's types up to 1500, including those he took over...Library itself). One result is a redating of most of Wynkyn's incunable output, progressively discussed and tabulated...
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Rebecca L. Schoff, Reformations: Three Medieval Authors in Manuscripts and Movable Type.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...strategies and some continuation in John Stow's Workes of 1561. The one extant manuscript of Margery Kempe's Book and Wynkyn de Worde's printed excerpts from it inevitably present the reader with a more fragmented reception history. Here Schoff...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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culture: A treasure trove of books; If returned to the North-East, the Lindisfarne Gospels would not be the only historic book in the region, as Tony Henderson reports.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 1/10/2008; 700+ words
; ...copy of Thomas More's first assault on Martin Luther; and four items from the workshop of the aptlynamed printer Wynkyn de Worde. The collections are not confined to books. There are the letters of the poet Gerald Manley Hopkins, and one of...
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Wynkyn de Worde
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wynkyn de Worde , d. 1535, English printer, whose original name was Jan van Wynkyn. He was born at Wörth in Alsace...these he later added other styles. Wynkyn de Worde printed more than 700 books, including...
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Worde, Wynkyn de
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Worde, Wynkyn de (d. 1535), printer from Wörth in Alsace, probably met...was Caxton's principal assistant until his death in 1491/2 whereupon Wynkyn succeeded to the printing business which he managed until his death...
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Caxton, William (c. 1422–1491)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...printing shops dominated: those of Wynkyn de Worde, Caxton's former workman, who...appears that, by and large, de Worde and Pynson divided rather than competed...control of the bookbuying market. De Worde specialized in cheap pamphlets of...
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William Caxton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...returned to London, where he set up a printer's shop. Wynkyn de Worde became his foreman and, on Caxton's death in 1491...Knight; with an introd. by Kenneth Da, London: Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1976. Painter, George Duncan, William...
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Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond and Derby
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of divinity at Oxford and Cambridge and with the help of her confessor, John Fisher , founded Christ's College and St. John's College, Cambridge. She was the patron of many religious houses and of William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde.
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