Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England
2/5
()
About this ebook
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.
Related to Memory's Library
Related ebooks
Approaching the Bible in medieval England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBound to Read: Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBurning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A landscape of words: Ireland, Britain and the poetics of space, 700–1250 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPiers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorthern memories and the English Middle Ages Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBooks and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Cooke sisters: Education, piety and politics in early modern England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Library: An Illustrated History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJohn of Salisbury and the medieval Roman renaissance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife in the Medieval University Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of the Renaissance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMilton and the Making of Paradise Lost Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBritain's lost revolution?: Jacobite Scotland and French grand strategy, 1701–8 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistory and the Written Word: Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeda: A Journey to the Seven Kingdoms at the Time of Bede Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition: Words, ideas, interactions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTexts and readers in the Age of Marvell Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMonastic Life in the Medieval British Isles: Essays in Honour of Janet Burton Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Machines of the Mind: Personification in Medieval Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExeter Cathedral: The First Thousand Years 1400-1550 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Christian World of the Middle Ages Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Winchester: Swithun’s ‘City of Happiness and Good Fortune’: An Archaeological Assessment Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPhilosophy and Civilization in the Middle Ages Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFor God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGerald of Wales: New Perspectives on a Medieval Writer and Critic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Churches of Medieval Exeter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
European History For You
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dry: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mein Kampf: English Translation of Mein Kamphf - Mein Kampt - Mein Kamphf Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jane Austen: The Complete Novels Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book: The Script Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Violent Abuse of Women: In 17th and 18th Century Britain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Law Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of English Magic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Victorian Lady's Guide to Fashion and Beauty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Memory's Library
1 rating0 reviews