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

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:x, 343 p. :; ill.
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Table of 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.