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Mediengeschichte : vor und nach Gutenberg
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ISBN: 9783534200801 Year: 2007 Publisher: Darmstadt Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft

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Spontaneity and tradition: : a study in the oral art of Homer
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ISBN: 0520022459 9780520022454 Year: 1974 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press,


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Memory's library : medieval books in early modern England
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ISBN: 9780226781716 0226781712 0226781704 9786611966614 1281966614 0226781720 9780226781709 9780226781723 9781281966612 6611966617 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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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, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory's Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory's Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.

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