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Author Summit, Jennifer.

Title Memory's library : medieval books in early modern England / Jennifer Summit
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 343 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : libraries of memory -- Lydgate's libraries : Duke Humfrey, Bury St. Edmunds, and The fall of princes -- The lost libraries of English humanism : More, Starkey, Elyot -- Reading Reformation : the libraries of Matthew Parker and Edmund Spenser -- A library of evidence : Robert Cotton's medieval manuscripts and the generation of seventeenth-century prose -- "Cogitation against libraries" : Bacon, the Bodleian, and the weight of the medieval past -- Coda : memories of libraries
Summary "Libraries," wrote Francis Bacon in 1605, "are as the shrines, where all the reliques of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved, and reposed." But in Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shaped the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory's Library revises the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-328) and index
Notes English
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Subject Libraries -- England -- History -- 1400-1600
Libraries -- England -- History -- 17th century
Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century
Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century
Reformation -- England.
Book collecting -- England -- History
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries.
Book collecting
Books and reading
Intellectual life
Libraries
Reformation
Lesekultur
Bibliothek
Geistesgeschichte -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 15. Jh.
Geistesgeschichte -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 16. Jh.
Geistesgeschichte -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
Bibliothek -- England -- Geschichte 15. Jh.
Bibliothek -- England -- Geschichte 16. Jh.
Bibliothek -- England -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
Bibliothek.
Leseverhalten.
SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043301
England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302
Subject England
England.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226781723
0226781720
1281966614
9781281966612
9786611966614
6611966617