LEADER 04374nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910808795103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-96661-4 010 $a9786611966614 010 $a0-226-78172-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226781723 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578515 035 $a(EBL)432302 035 $a(OCoLC)309882042 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000591875 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12198948 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000591875 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10727464 035 $a(PQKB)11308519 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000201159 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190122 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201159 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10232112 035 $a(PQKB)11578724 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115859 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432302 035 $a(DE-B1597)523364 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226781723 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432302 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266065 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196661 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578515 100 $a20071102d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMemory's library$b[electronic resource] $emedieval books in early modern England /$fJennifer Summit 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (354 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-78170-4 311 $a0-226-78171-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-328) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aLibraries$zEngland$xHistory$y1400-1600 606 $aLibraries$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aBooks and reading$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aBooks and reading$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aReformation$zEngland 606 $aBook collecting$zEngland$xHistory 607 $aEngland$xIntellectual life$y16th century 607 $aEngland$xIntellectual life$y17th century 610 $amedieval, middle ages, time period, era, early modern, england, britain, uk, united kingdom, europe, european, western, memory, remembrance, remembering, academic, scholarly, research, history, historical, libraries, books, reading, written, tradition, past, 1400s, 1500s, 1600s, antiquarian, robert cotton, reformation, post, intellectual, humanism, evidence, reformer. 615 0$aLibraries$xHistory 615 0$aLibraries$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aReformation 615 0$aBook collecting$xHistory. 676 $a027.042 700 $aSummit$b Jennifer$01600176 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808795103321 996 $aMemory's library$93923173 997 $aUNINA