Title: Memory's Library
Description: In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition, they are volatile spaces that actively shaped the meanings and uses of books, reading and the past. Considering the period between 1431 and 1631, she revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval England.
Subjects: Books and reading, Libraries, Book collecting, Reformation, Intellectual life, History, English literature, history and criticism, Libraries, great britain, Books and reading, history, Reformation, england, Great britain, intellectual life