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The Anglo-Saxon Library (Hardcover, New)
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The Anglo-Saxon Library (Hardcover, New)
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The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of
classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has
long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches
of those English scholars whose writings determined the curriculum
of medieval schools: Aldhelm, Bede, and Alcuin, to name only the
best known. Yet this is the first full-length account of the nature
and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the sixth century to the
eleventh.
The early chapters discuss libraries in antiquity, notably at
Alexandria and republican and imperial Rome, and also the Christian
libraries of late antiquity which supplied books to Anglo-Saxon
England. Because Anglo-Saxon libraries themselves have almost
completely vanished, three classes of evidence need to be combined
in order to form a detailed impression of their holdings: surviving
inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations of classical and
patristic works by Anglo-Saxon authors themselves.
After setting out the problems entailed in using such evidence,
the book is provided with appendices containing editions of all
surviving Anglo-Saxon inventories, lists of all Anglo-Saxon
manuscripts exported to continental libraries during the eighth
century and then all manuscripts re-imported into England in the
tenth, as well as a catalogue of all citations of classical and
patristic literature by Anglo-Saxon authors.
A comprehensive index, arranged alphabetically by author, combines
these various classes of evidence so that the reader can see at a
glance what books were known where and by whom in Anglo-Saxon
England. The book thus provides, within a single volume, a vast
amount of information on thebooks and learning of the schools which
determined the course of medieval literary culture.
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