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Chapter 6 - The Libraries of Religious Houses

from Part II - Readers and Their Books

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2018

Erik Kwakkel
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Rodney Thomson
Affiliation:
University of Tasmania
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This chapter focuses upon the concept of a library in this period, and asks whether the expansion in the scale and scope of institutional holdings in this period changed the ways in which they were perceived and used. It examines the terminology used to refer to them; their physical organization, and the identity and responsibilities of those given custody of them. It reveals the existence of shared practices and perceptions across Latin Europe, and points to continuity in the understanding of what constituted a library: a resource that served the liturgical and devotional as well as the intellectual requirements of a community.

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