Memory's Library : Medieval Books in Early Modern England /

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In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape 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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Summit, Jennifer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
Temas:
Book collecting > England > History.
Books and reading > England > History > 16th century.
Books and reading > England > History > 17th century.
Libraries > England > History > 1400-1600.
Libraries > England > History > 17th century.
Reformation > England.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
medieval, middle ages, time period, era, early modern, england, britain, uk, united kingdom, europe, european, western, memory, remembrance, remembering, academic, scholarly, research, history, historical, libraries, books, reading, written, tradition, past, 1400s, 1500s, 1600s, antiquarian, robert cotton, reformation, post, intellectual, humanism, evidence, reformer.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Libraries of Memory
  • 1. Lydgate's Libraries: Duke Humfrey, Bury St. Edmunds, and The Fall of Princes
  • 2. The Lost Libraries of English Humanism: More, Starkey, Elyot
  • 3. Reading Reformation: The Libraries of Matthew Parker and Edmund Spenser
  • 4. A Library of Evidence: Robert Cotton's Medieval Manuscripts and the Generation of Seventeenth-Century Prose
  • 5. "Cogitation against Libraries": Bacon, the Bodleian, and the Weight of the Medieval Past
  • Coda: Memories of Libraries
  • Notes
  • Index

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