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 |
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Libraries -- England -- History -- 1400-1600
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Libraries -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Reformation -- England.
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Book collecting -- England -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries.
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Book collecting
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Books and reading
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Intellectual life
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Libraries
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Reformation
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Lesekultur
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Bibliothek
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Geistesgeschichte -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 15. Jh.
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Geistesgeschichte -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 16. Jh.
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Geistesgeschichte -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
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Bibliothek -- England -- Geschichte 15. Jh.
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Bibliothek -- England -- Geschichte 16. Jh.
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Bibliothek -- England -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
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Bibliothek.
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Leseverhalten.
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England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043301
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England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302
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England
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England.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780226781723 |
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0226781720 |
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1281966614 |
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9781281966612 |
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9786611966614 |
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6611966617 |
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