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Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods

Author : John Willis Clark

Publisher : Good Press

Page : 45 pages

File Size : 27,22 MB

Release : 2023-08-22

Category : History

ISBN :

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In 'Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods' by John Willis Clark, the reader is taken on a journey through the development of libraries during two significant periods of history. Through detailed analysis and insightful commentary, Clark thoroughly examines the role of libraries in society, their contents, and their impact on the culture of the time. Written in a scholarly and informative style, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the importance of libraries in preserving knowledge and promoting intellectual growth during the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of how libraries served as vital centers of learning and scholarship, shaping the intellectual landscape of the time. John Willis Clark, a renowned scholar and historian, brings his expertise to this study of libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. His profound knowledge of the subject matter is evident in the meticulous research and thoughtful analysis present throughout the book. Clark's passion for history and dedication to preserving the legacy of libraries shine through in this insightful work. Highly recommended for history enthusiasts, scholars, and anyone interested in the evolution of libraries, 'Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods' offers a valuable insight into the importance of these institutions during two pivotal periods of history.





Medieval Schools

Author : Nicholas Orme

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 462 pages

File Size : 15,92 MB

Release : 2006-01-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 9780300111026

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A sequel to Nicholas Orme's widely praised study, Medieval Children Children have gone to school in England since Roman times. By the end of the middle ages there were hundreds of schools, supporting a highly literate society. This book traces their history from the Romans to the Renaissance, showing how they developed, what they taught, how they were run, and who attended them. Every kind of school is covered, from reading schools in churches and town grammar schools to schools in monasteries and nunneries, business schools, and theological schools. The author also shows how they fitted into a constantly changing world, ending with the impacts of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Medieval schools anticipated nearly all the ideas, practices, and institutions of schooling today. Their remarkable successes in linguistic and literary work, organizational development, teaching large numbers of people shaped the societies that they served. Only by understanding what schools achieved can we fathom the nature of the middle ages.



Memory's Library

Author : Jennifer Summit

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 34,30 MB

Release : 2008-11-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0226781720

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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.



The Criminal Law System of Medieval and Renaissance Florence

Author : Laura Ikins Stern

Publisher :

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 31,90 MB

Release : 1994

Category : History

ISBN :

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Historians of medieval and Renaissance Italy have long held that the Florentine republic fell victim to rule by oligarchy in the early fifteenth century. Now, in the first complete analysis of the criminal law system of Florence during this crucial period, Laura Ikins Stern argues that the vitality of Florentine legal institutions gives evidence of a centralized state bureaucracy strong enough to thwart the early development of a ruling oligarchy. Exploring the changing roles played by judicial officials as well as the evolution of Florentine government, Stern shows how these developments reflected broad-based change in society at large. From such primary documents as legal statutes and actual trial records, she provides a step-by-step explanation of trial procedure to offer a rare glimpse of inquisition methods in the secular world--from public fame initiation, through the weighing of various levels of proof, to the complex process of sentencing. And sheexplores the links between implementation of inquisition procedure, the development of the territorial state, and the struggle between republican institutions and the emerging oligarchy. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.



Toward a Global Middle Ages

Author : Bryan C. Keene

Publisher : Getty Publications

Page : 300 pages

File Size : 35,64 MB

Release : 2019-09-03

Category : Art

ISBN : 160606598X

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This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.





The Rise of the Arabic Book

Author : Beatrice Gruendler

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 41,76 MB

Release : 2020-10-13

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0674250265

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The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages. During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access. How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler’s The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century. The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known—until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters.