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Memory´s Library
Jennifer Summit
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Description for Memory´s Library
Paperback. 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, this book revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
354
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226781709
SKU
V9780226781709
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About Jennifer Summit
Jennifer Summit is 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.
Reviews for Memory´s Library
"An original work that will repay careful study, both by library historians and by literary scholars, and it should provoke thoughtful consideration of the significance and meaning of libraries today." (Times Higher Education) "A stimulating and rewarding book, well calculated to make us rethink many aspects of the history of late medieval and early modern libraries." (American Historical Review)"