Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/qLO1L0 Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England By: Jennifer Summit Publisher: University of Chicago Press Print ISBN: 9780226781709, 0226781704 eText ISBN: 9780226781723, 0226781720 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2008 Format: PDF Available from $ 34.00 USD SKU 9780226781723 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. Additional ISBNs 9780226781709, 9780226781716, 0226781704, 0226781712
