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1 online resource (x, 343 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-328) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Reformation -- England.
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Reformation. |
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England. |
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Book collecting -- England -- History.
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Book collecting. |
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History. |
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1400-1699 |
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Geschichte 1450-1500 |
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Geschichte 1500-1600 |
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Geschichte 1600-1650 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- History.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Summit, Jennifer. Memory's library. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 9780226781716 0226781712 (DLC) 2007044242 (OCoLC)176979637 |
| ISBN |
9780226781723 (electronic book) |
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0226781720 (electronic book) |
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9780226781716 (alkaline paper) |
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0226781712 (alkaline paper) |
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