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Ceterone

David Munrow, Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, OUP 1976, supplied with the EMI boxed LP set of that name.

Gaius Considius Longus

Brennan, T. Corey (2000), The Praetorship of the Roman Republic (Oxford:OUP) vol.

Hart's Rules

Hart's Rules originated as a compilation of rules and standards by Horace Hart over almost three decades during his employment at other printing establishments, but they were first printed as a single broadsheet page for in-house use by the OUP in 1893 while Hart was Controller of the University Press.

History painting

Blunt, Anthony, Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450-1660, 1940 (refs to 1985 edn), OUP, ISBN 0-19-881050-4

Kendall's W

Dodge, Y (2003) The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms, OUP.

Life of Adam and Eve

Brian O. Murdoch, The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe: Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of the Vita Adae et Evae, Oxford (OUP), 2009.

Sukanta Chaudhuri

He has authored Renaissance Pastoral and Its English Developments (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), edited selections of Francis Bacon’s Essays and of Elizabethan poetry for OUP, and edited or co-edited several collections of essays on the Renaissance: most recently Shakespeare without English (New Delhi: Pearson Education, 2006).

Susie Dent

From 2003 to 2007 she was the author of a series of annual Language Reports for the OUP.

While

Practical English Usage by Michael Swan (OUP), a reference book for intermediate and advanced learners of English, does not include whilst but has several sections covering the usage of while.


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