By Jennifer Summit
In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are greater than inert storehouses of written culture; they're risky areas that actively form the meanings and makes use of of books, analyzing, and the prior. contemplating the two-hundred-year interval among 1431, which observed the root of Duke Humfrey’s well-known library, and 1631, whilst the good antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the background of the trendy library by way of concentrating on its origins in medieval and early smooth England.
Summit argues that the medieval resources that live to tell the tale in English collections are the manufactured from a Reformation and post-Reformation fight to redefine the prior through redefining the cultural position, functionality, and id of libraries. through constructing the highbrow dynamism of English libraries in this the most important interval in their improvement, Memory’s Library demonstrates how a lot present discussions concerning the way forward for libraries can achieve by way of reexamining their past.
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W. ”101 If the lydgate’s libraries 33 rebellion represented a “usurpation of . . ”103 Similarly, in nearly all contemporary and near-contemporary accounts, the literacy of the 1431 rebels became their hallmark. Thus, a letter from “Humfrey duke of Gloucestre, guardian of England,” dated 13 May 1431, “To the Sheriffs of London” warns against Sharp and his allies, who “at the instigation of the devil have written and caused to be written diverse bills and writings false and seditious containing things contrary to the Christian faith and doctrine .
111 Through these works of patronage, Humfrey reasserted literacy as a tool of the ruler over the ruled. ”113 This point is reflected in the Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci’s Lives of Illustrious Men, which eulogizes his famous contemporaries by recounting the magnificence of their libraries: the Duke of Urbino, Vespasiano reports, “had a mind to do what no one had done for a thousand years or more; that is, to create the finest library since ancient times. ”117 But Humfrey was attentive to at least some of his books’ contents as well as their appearance.
123 What makes Humfrey a scourge of Lollards, in other words, also makes him a gifted scholar. 389). 3807–8). The Fall of Princes is a fiction of the library, a setting in which Lydgate goes out of his way to establish the scene of the work’s composition. Where Boccaccio frequently refers to himself in the act of writing, Lydgate emphatically locates that act in a study or library, two terms he uses interchangeably. 126 Though a place “to be solitarie,” Lydgate’s library is not set apart from the world—as reflected in the Rosenbach illuminations, which represent the poet continuously visited in his library by figures of worldly authority such as Emperor Mauritius (fig.
