| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 640 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber -- The physical setting -- The medieval library (to c. 1450) / Richard Gameson -- The early modern library (to c. 1640) / Clare Sargent -- The medieval library -- Celtic Britain and Ireland in the early middle ages / Pádraig P. Ó Néill -- Anglo-Saxon England / David Ganz -- Monastic and cathedral book collections in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries / Teresa Webber -- The libraries of religious houses in the late middle ages / David Bell -- College and university book collections and libraries / Roger Lovatt -- Bishops and kings: private book collections in medieval England / Jenny Stratford and Teresa Webber -- The medieval librarian / Richard Sharpe -- Borrowing and reference: access to libraries in the late middle ages / Peter J. Lucas -- Reformation, dissolution, new learning -- The dispersal of the monastic libraries and the salvaging of the spoils / James P. Carley -- Extending the frontiers: scholar collectors / Julian Roberts -- Matthew Parker's manuscripts: an Elizabethan library and its use / Timothy Graham -- Tools of the trade -- Universities and colleges / Kristian Jensen -- Major ecclesiastical libraries: from Reformation to Civil War / C.B.L. Barr and David Selwyn -- Clerical and parish libraries / Arnold Hunt -- Schools and schoolmasters (to c. 1550) / Nicholas Orme -- School libraries (c. 1540 to 1640) / William H. Barker -- Common lawyers and the Inns of Court / J.H. Baker -- Medical libraries / Peter Murray Jones -- Heralds' libraries / Pamela Selwyn -- Libraries for leisure -- 'The profession of a gentleman': books for the gentry and the nobility (c. 1560 to 1640) / Pamela Selwyn and David Selwyn -- Libraries of the 'common sort' / Margaret Spufford -- The libraries of the antiquaries (c. 1580-1640) and the idea of a national collection / Richard Ovenden -- Organisation and administration -- Library administration (c. 1475 to 1640) / C.Y. Ferdinand -- Libraries and the organization of knowledge / David McKitterick |
| Summary |
This is a detailed scholarly history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. It provides a panorama of the great variety of libraries since the medieval period, setting them in their social and cultural contexts and interpreting their role as it has changed over time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Libraries -- Great Britain -- History
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Libraries -- Ireland -- History
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Libraries
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Great Britain
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Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leedham-Green, E. S
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Webber, Teresa
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| ISBN |
9780511468131 |
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051146813X |
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9781139055307 |
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1139055305 |
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9781139055307 |
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