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

Author/creator Summit, Jennifer
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press,
Descriptionx, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-328) and index.
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LCCN 2007044242
ISBN9780226781716 (alk. paper)
ISBN0226781712 (alk. paper)