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Memory's library : medieval books in early modern England /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Summit, Jennifer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.