A Review of C. Schabel’s Bullarium Cyprium

I have finally finished by relatively uninspired review of C. Schabel’s brilliant new edition of the Bullarium Cyprium. Regular readers of this blog have already read this post and this post on this book.  I’ll continue my practice of posting the final(ish) version of my review here so that you can see how my ideas were ultimately compressed into around 2000 words suitable for publication.

The only editorializing that I’ll add to the review (which is, frankly, no great shakes and probably needs another proofread before it’s submitted), is that this review derived primary from my blog posts. In other words, the blog was the brainstorm that began the process of reviewing the book. Blogging isn’t separate from publications (whether peer reviewed or more modest like this book review), but a stage in a more transparent scholarly process.

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