书名：Libraries and Books in Medieval England: The Role of Libraries in a Changing Book Economy / 中世纪英格兰的图书馆与书籍：图书馆在变化的书籍经济中的角色
定价：788.0
ISBN：9781851246014
作者：Professor Richard Sharpe
版次：1
出版时间：2023-04

内容提要：

书 名：Libraries and Books in Medieval England: The Role of Libraries in a Changing Book Economy / 中世纪英格兰的图书馆与书籍：图书馆在变化的书籍经济中的角色

作 者：Professor Richard Sharpe

出 版：Bodleian Library ，2023

装 帧：精装，192页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：15.6*23.4 cm

 

 

中世纪英格兰书籍丰富，其数量远超现存书籍。损失最为惨重的时期是国王亨利八世镇压国内宗教场所时，他们的图书馆被洗劫一空，书籍遭到销毁。20世纪的学者们一直在努力确定现存书籍，并探寻昔日图书馆曾收藏的书籍。为了理解这些证据，并能够重构中世纪的文化传播，我们需要谨慎地利用现存书籍的证据，以及中世纪图书馆目录所能告诉我们的关于这些遗失藏书的信息。

 

《中世纪英格兰的图书馆与书籍》一书根据所有可用证据，描绘了书籍流通的新图景。它试图摆脱将修道院图书馆视为中世纪书籍供应唯一场所的现代观念，并拓宽人们对更广泛书籍经济的认识，包括私人藏书和书籍贸易的诞生。该书由该国顶尖专家撰写，基于他在牛津大学的莱尔讲座，是一部无与伦比的著作，为这一领域提供了全新视角。

 

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.