Memory's library [electronic resource] : medieval books in early modern England / Jennifer Summit.

By: Summit, JenniferContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008Description: 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 027.042 LOC classification: Z791.E5 | S86 2008Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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.

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