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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.

Book collecting --- Books and reading --- Libraries --- Reformation --- History. --- History --- England --- Intellectual life --- Book history --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- 02 <09> <41> --- 02 <09> <41> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- libraries [object groupings] --- bookstocks --- manuscripts [documents] --- Bibliophily --- Books --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- English Reformation --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- medieval, middle ages, time period, era, early modern, england, britain, uk, united kingdom, europe, european, western, memory, remembrance, remembering, academic, scholarly, research, history, historical, libraries, books, reading, written, tradition, past, 1400s, 1500s, 1600s, antiquarian, robert cotton, reformation, post, intellectual, humanism, evidence, reformer.

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"Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting--instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory. By tracing their ramifications through the centuries, Archeologies of Confession carefully reconstructs the often surprising histories of plurality that have otherwise been lost or obscured"--Provided by publisher.

Church historians --- Collective memory --- Geschichtsschreibung. --- Identification (Religion) --- Reformation --- Reformation. --- Religious pluralism --- Social aspects --- Historiography --- Germany --- Church history --- Historiography. --- Religious life and customs --- 284.1 <09> --- Historians, Church --- Historians --- Pluralism (Religion) --- Pluralism --- Religion --- Religions --- Protestant Reformation --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- 284.1 <09> Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--Geschiedenis --- Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--Geschiedenis --- Identity (Religion) --- Religious identity --- Psychology, Religious --- Social aspects&delete& --- History --- Weimar Republic --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Германия --- BRD --- FRN --- Jirmānīya --- جرمانيا --- Nimechchyna --- Gjermani --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Ashkenaz --- Germanyah --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Deutschland --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República Federal de Alemania --- Alemania --- República de Alemania --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- KhBNGU --- ХБНГУ --- German Uls --- Germania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Deutsches Reich --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Weimarer Republik --- Vācijā --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (East) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire --- ドイツ --- Doitsu --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- 284.1 <43> "..." --- 284.1 <43> "..." Evangelische Kerk in Duitsland--"tijd" --- Evangelische Kerk in Duitsland--"tijd" --- ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク --- Christian church history --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Deguo --- 德国 --- Gėrman --- Герман Улс --- christianity. --- collection of essays. --- essays about reformation in germany. --- formation of religious identities. --- germany. --- modern religious identities. --- ramifications through centuries. --- religious plurality. --- studies of remembering and forgetting. --- surprising histories of plurality.