Libraries and Books in Medieval England by Richard Sharpe
Libraries and Books in Medieval England

Richard Sharpe

Libraries and Books in Medieval England

Lyell Lectures in Bibliography

Richard Sharpe with James Willoughby

171 pages first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
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Medieval England was full of books, many times the number of those that survive. The great moment of loss was when the country’s religious houses were suppressed by King Henry VIII and their libraries were scattered and destroyed. Twentieth-centur...

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