ANGLO-SAXON LIBRARY.
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 23, 2006
Place of publication: OXFORD
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 422
Description: "The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of classical and patristic literature of the later middle ages has long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches of those English scholars whose writings determined the curriculum of medieval schools: Aldhelm, Bede, and Alcuin, to name only the best known. Yet this is the first full-length account of the nature and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the sixth century to the eleventh."--Jacket.