Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley to Thomas James
Author : Sir Thomas Bodley
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Author : Sir Thomas Bodley
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Author : Sir Thomas Bodley
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Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Sir Thomas Bodley
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Page : 251 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : Sir Thomas Bodley
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Page : 43 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 1926
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Page : 752 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Libraries
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Author : Elizabeth Solopova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1781382980
The catalogue is a detailed study of Oxford manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible, the first complete translation of the Bible in English.
Author : Bodleian Library
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 1927
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
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Author : John Willinsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 022648808X
Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products of knowledge a different legal and economic standing than other sorts of property. Willinsky begins with Saint Jerome in the fifth century, then traces the evolution of reading, writing, and editing practices in monasteries, schools, universities, and among independent scholars through the medieval period and into the Renaissance. He delves into the influx of Islamic learning and the rediscovery of classical texts, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the founding of the Bodleian Library before finally arriving at John Locke, whose influential lobbying helped bring about the first copyright law, the Statute of Anne of 1710. Willinsky’s bravura tour through this history shows that learning gave rise to our idea of intellectual property while remaining distinct from, if not wholly uncompromised by, the commercial economy that this concept inspired, making it clear that today’s push for marketable intellectual property threatens the very nature of the quest for learning on which it rests.
Author : Jennifer Summit
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226781720
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.