04127nam 2200877 a 450 991095739000332120200520144314.09786611966614978128196661212819666149780226781723022678172010.7208/9780226781723(CKB)1000000000578515(EBL)432302(OCoLC)309882042(SSID)ssj0000591875(PQKBManifestationID)12198948(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000591875(PQKBWorkID)10727464(PQKB)11308519(SSID)ssj0000201159(PQKBManifestationID)11190122(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201159(PQKBWorkID)10232112(PQKB)11578724(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115859(MiAaPQ)EBC432302(DE-B1597)523364(DE-B1597)9780226781723(Au-PeEL)EBL432302(CaPaEBR)ebr10266065(CaONFJC)MIL196661(Perlego)1850570(EXLCZ)99100000000057851520071102d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMemory's library medieval books in early modern England /Jennifer Summit1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (354 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780226781709 0226781704 9780226781716 0226781712 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.In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory's Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory's Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.LibrariesEnglandHistory1400-1600LibrariesEnglandHistory17th centuryBooks and readingEnglandHistory16th centuryBooks and readingEnglandHistory17th centuryReformationEnglandBook collectingEnglandHistoryEnglandIntellectual life16th centuryEnglandIntellectual life17th centuryLibrariesHistoryLibrariesHistoryBooks and readingHistoryBooks and readingHistoryReformationBook collectingHistory.027.042Summit Jennifer1807745MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957390003321Memory's library4357631UNINA