Marsh's library--a mirror on the world
Subtitle: law, learning and libraries, 1650-1750
By: Muriel McCarthy and Ann Simmons, editors
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781846821523
Subjects: Congresses; History; Library; Libraries; Marsh's Library
Description: This volume introduces the reader to a world of books, pamphlets, illustrations and portraits. It describes in detail the work of Archbishop Marsh and the development of the library through the 19th and 20th centuries.
Notes: Papers given at a conference, 'Marsh's Library: a mirror on the world', 18th - 20th October 2007, in the library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Expanding British world : looking backward and forward from the turn of the seventeenth century  -- Jack P. Greene; title: 6 Anne, chapter 19 : 'settling and preserving a publick library for ever'  -- W.N. Osborough; title: Bishops as legislators : Marsh and his contemporaries  -- D.W. Hayton; title: Aspects of the role of the Holy Office in Irish church affairs in the early seventeenth century  -- Thomas O'Connor; title: Location of learning in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland  -- Michael Brown; title: Philip Skelton and the Irish origins of the British Protestant counter-enlightenment  -- C.D.A. Leighton; title: Monuments, memorials and martyrs in French Protestantism after the Revocation : the case of Louis de Marolles  -- Ruth Whelan; title: Library of Élie Bouhéreau : the intellectual universe of a Huguenot refugee and his family  -- Philip Benedict and Pierre-Olivier Léchot; title: Bishop Stearne's collection of books and manuscripts  -- Toby Barnard; title: Writing history in seventeenth-century Ireland : Dudley Loftus' annals  -- Elizabethanne Boran; title: Manuscript collectors in the age of Marsh  -- Raymond Gillespie; title: Richard Helsham, Jonathan Swift, and the library of John Putland  -- A.C. Elias; title: Whose books? : the Synge library catalogue of 1763 -- Marie-Louise Legg.