Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England by Jennifer Summit

Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England

Jennifer Summit

354 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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,...

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