Author: John Willis Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
Author: John Willis Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Medieval Library
Author: James Westfall Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquity and Middle-Ages
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Reimpreso con un suplemento by Blanche B. Boyer.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquity and Middle-Ages
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Reimpreso con un suplemento by Blanche B. Boyer.
The Arundel Lyrics. The Poems of Hugh Primas
Author: Christopher J. McDonough
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674055578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This volume presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the twelfth century. The collection is further augmented by verse as varied as Christmas poems and satires on the venality of the Roman Curia and immoral bishops.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674055578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This volume presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the twelfth century. The collection is further augmented by verse as varied as Christmas poems and satires on the venality of the Roman Curia and immoral bishops.
The Beowulf Manuscript
Author: R. D. Fulk
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674052951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
R.D. Fulk is Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674052951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
R.D. Fulk is Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. --Book Jacket.
Memory's Library
Author: Jennifer Summit
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226781720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226781720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Feudal Germany
Author: James Westfall Thompson
Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1928. - [Portland, Or. : R. Abel
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1928. - [Portland, Or. : R. Abel
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The Medieval Book
Author: Barbara A. Shailor
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Originally published by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1988.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Originally published by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1988.
The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West
Author: Alison I. Beach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108770630
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
Book Description
Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108770630
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
Book Description
Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland: Volume 1, To 1640
Author: Elisabeth Leedham-Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521781947
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
This volume is the first detailed survey of libraries in Britain and Ireland up to the Civil War. It traces the transition from collections of books without a fixed local habitation to the library, chiefly of printed books, much as we know it today. It examines changing patterns in the formation of book collections in the earlier medieval period, traces the combined impact of the activities of the mendicant orders and the scholarship of the universities in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the adoption of the library room and the growth of private book collections in the fourteenth and fifteenth. The volume then focuses upon the dispersal of the monastic libraries in the mid-sixteenth centuries, the creation of new types of library, and finally, the steps whereby the collections amassed by antiquaries came to form the bases of the national and institutional libraries of Britain and Ireland.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521781947
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
This volume is the first detailed survey of libraries in Britain and Ireland up to the Civil War. It traces the transition from collections of books without a fixed local habitation to the library, chiefly of printed books, much as we know it today. It examines changing patterns in the formation of book collections in the earlier medieval period, traces the combined impact of the activities of the mendicant orders and the scholarship of the universities in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the adoption of the library room and the growth of private book collections in the fourteenth and fifteenth. The volume then focuses upon the dispersal of the monastic libraries in the mid-sixteenth centuries, the creation of new types of library, and finally, the steps whereby the collections amassed by antiquaries came to form the bases of the national and institutional libraries of Britain and Ireland.
Medieval Damascus
Author: Hirschler Konrad Hirschler
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474408796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the twelfth century onwards. While the existence of these libraries is well known our knowledge of their content and structure has been very limited as hardly any medieval Arabic catalogues have been preserved. This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation - the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus - and edits its catalogue. This catalogue shows that even book collections attached to Sunni religious institutions could hold rather unexpected titles, such as stories from the 1001 Nights, manuals for traders, medical handbooks, Shiite prayers, love poetry and texts extolling wine consumption. At the same time this library catalogue decisively expands our knowledge of how the books were spatially organised on the bookshelves of such a large medieval library. With over 2,000 entries this catalogue is essential reading for anybody interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Arabic societies. Setting the Ashrafiya catalogue into a comparative perspective with contemporaneous libraries on the British Isles this book opens new perspectives for the study of medieval libraries.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474408796
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the twelfth century onwards. While the existence of these libraries is well known our knowledge of their content and structure has been very limited as hardly any medieval Arabic catalogues have been preserved. This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation - the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus - and edits its catalogue. This catalogue shows that even book collections attached to Sunni religious institutions could hold rather unexpected titles, such as stories from the 1001 Nights, manuals for traders, medical handbooks, Shiite prayers, love poetry and texts extolling wine consumption. At the same time this library catalogue decisively expands our knowledge of how the books were spatially organised on the bookshelves of such a large medieval library. With over 2,000 entries this catalogue is essential reading for anybody interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Arabic societies. Setting the Ashrafiya catalogue into a comparative perspective with contemporaneous libraries on the British Isles this book opens new perspectives for the study of medieval libraries.