Memory's library : medieval books in early modern England

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

Author/creator	Summit, Jennifer
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Description	x, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subject(s)	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 note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-328) and index.
LCCN	2007044242
ISBN	9780226781716 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0226781712 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	Z791.E5 S86 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold