Memory's library [electronic resource] : medieval books in early modern England / Jennifer Summit.
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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: x, 343 p. : illSubject(s): - 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
- England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
- England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
- 027.042 22
- Z791.E5 S86 2008
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-328) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.