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Memory's library : medieval books in early modern England
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Memory's library : medieval books in early modern England / Jennifer Summit.
ISBN
9780226781716 (alk. paper)
0226781712 (alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Physical Description
x, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 22, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-328) and index.
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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