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  • Introduction to Documentation Studies

    Series series Introduction to
    2025 ASIS&T Best Information Science Book AwardThis book presents the first comprehensive introduction to documentation studies. It outlines the historical background of, and the theoretical foundation for a complementary approach to documentation issues and processes: not only in the context of academic study, but also in the practice of documentation in different parts of society.What do a ... Read more

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  • Denmark and Europe in the Middle Ages, c.1000–1525

    Essays in Honour of Professor Michael H. Gelting

    Where medieval Denmark and Scandinavia as a whole has often been seen as a cultural backwater that passively and belatedly received cultural and political impulses from Western Europe, Professor Michael H. Gelting and scholars inspired by him have shown that the intellectual, religious and political elite of Denmark actively participated in the renaissance and reformation of the central and later ... Read more

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    The "Hystoria Constantinopolitana" of Gunther of Pairis

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  • Unrivalled Influence

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    Series series Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
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