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Beth Quitslund and Nicholas Temperley, The Whole Book of Psalms Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others: A Critical Edition of the Texts and Tunes, 2 vols., Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 387 and 557, Renaissance English Text Society, 7th Series, vols. 36–7 (for 2011). Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2018. xlviii + 1096 pp. $96 each. ISBN 978 0 866 98435 5 (vol. 1); 978 0 866 98615 1 (vol. 2).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2020

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Plainsong & Medieval Music , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , October 2020 , pp. 184 - 189
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2 The older, traditionalist model of Dickens, A. G.: The English Reformation (New York, 1964, repr. 1974)Google Scholar.

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8 Beth Quitslund, ‘Authors, Copy Texts, and Other Casualties of Editing The Whole Book of Psalms’, paper given at the Sixteenth-Century Society conference, St Louis, Missouri, 18 October 2019.

9 Quitslund, ‘Authors, Copy Texts, and Other Casualties’.