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Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England - Hardcover

Summit, Jennifer

 
9780226781716: Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226781712 ISBN 13: 9780226781716
Verlag: The University of Chicago Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Jennifer Summit  is associate professor of English at Stanford University. She is the author of Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Verlag
The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226781712
ISBN 13 
9780226781716
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
336
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