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Author:

Summit, Jennifer.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Libraries--England--History--1400-1600.
Libraries--England--History--17th century.
Books and reading--England--History--16th century.
Books and reading--England--History--17th century.
England--Intellectual life--16th century.
England--Intellectual life--17th century.
Reformation--England.
Book collecting--England--History.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0226781712 (alk. paper)
9780226781716 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007044242

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)