Summit, Jennifer.

Memory's library medieval books in early modern England / [electronic resource] : Jennifer Summit. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. - x, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-328) and index.

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.


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Libraries--History--England--1400-1600.
Libraries--History--England--17th century.
Books and reading--History--England--16th century.
Books and reading--History--England--17th century.
Reformation--England.
Book collecting--History.--England


England--Intellectual life--16th century.
England--Intellectual life--17th century.


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