Medieval England was full of books, many times the number that have
survived. The great moment of loss was when the country’s
religious houses were suppressed by King Henry VIII and their
libraries scattered and destroyed. Twentieth-century scholarship
has been enterprising in establishing what survives and in
discovering what libraries once held. To understand that evidence,
and to be able to reconstruct the transmission of culture in the
Middle Ages, we need to employ with care the evidence of the
surviving books and what medieval library catalogues can tell us
about these lost collections. Libraries and Books in Medieval
England paints a new picture of the circulation of books, from the
totality of the available evidence. It seeks to move away from the
modern conceptualization of the monastic library as the only venue
for medieval book provision, and to broaden awareness of the wider
book economy, including private ownership and the birth of the book
trade. The result, by one of the country’s leading experts and
based on his Lyell Lectures in the University of Oxford, is an
unparalleled work offering a new view of the field.
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