Memory's library medieval books in early modern England / [electronic resource] :
Jennifer Summit.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- x, 343 p. : ill.
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.
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Libraries--History--England--1400-1600. Libraries--History--England--17th century. Books and reading--History--England--16th century. Books and reading--History--England--17th century. Reformation--England. Book collecting--History.--England