Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Titre(s) : Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries [Texte imprimé] : Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change : [contributions inspired by the outcome of the final colloquium of the Lamemoli project held in Siena in March 2022] / edited by outi Merisalo, Nataša Golob and Leornardo Magionami
Publication : Turnhout : Brepols, copyright 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (341 p.) : ill. en coul., couv. ill. en coul. ; 29 cm
Collection : Bibliologia. Elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia ; 68
Lien à la collection : Bibliologia
Note(s) : Notes biblior. Index
Textes en anglais, italien et français
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Merisalo, Outi (1959-....). Éditeur scientifique
Golob, Nataša (1947-....). Éditeur scientifique
Magionami, Leonardo. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Bibliothèques -- 400-1400
Bibliothèques -- 1400-1600
Bibliothèques -- 17e siècle
Bibliothèques privées -- Moyen âge
Bibliothèques privées -- Renaissance
Bibliothèques privées -- 17e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-2-503-60597-5 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47334286n
Notice n° :
FRBNF47334286
Résumé : Libraries are an important factor in preserving and transmitting knowledge, thus contributing
to historical continuity. The very concept of simultaneous availability of different
texts transmitting possibly contradictory ideas, however, implies a great potential
for engaging readers in new ways of thinking, thus promoting change. In addition to
transmitting texts, historical libraries would often also be perceived as objects
of material and spiritual value enhancing the prestige of their owner, e.g. contributing
to the image-building of the political entities ruled by emperors, kings and princes.
While the history of individual libraries of the Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance have been treated in various detail, no large-scale study of the impact
of Late Medieval and Early Modern libraries as knowledge repositories and guardians
of tradition, on the one hand, and catalysts of change, on the other, seems to exist.
This volume, which is inspired by the outcome of the final colloquium of the Lamemoli
project held in Siena in March 2022, explores from the book historical point of view
a series of both well-known and severely underexplored Late Medieval and Early Modern
book collections in existence between c. 1250 and c. 1650, a period of intense mediatic,
cultural, religious and political change in Western Europe. Covering an extensive
geographical area from France and Italy to Central and Northern Europe, the collections
are examined for both their material characteristics and contents, and their historical
formation, in order to assess their roles in preserving and transmitting information
as well as generating new ideas [source 4e de couverture]
