Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
By John Willis Clark
25 Oct, 2018
Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods was the Rede Lecture of 1894, given by John Willis Clark. It was published as a book later in the same year. The lecture was delivered at the University of Cambridge on 13 June 1894.It was reported in
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Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods was the Rede Lecture of 1894, given by John Willis Clark. It was published as a book later in the same year. The lecture was delivered at the University of Cambridge on 13 June 1894.It was reported in The Times on the day following with mention of the use of lantern slides. It covered what it refers to the libraries of the Ancient Romans as being the precursors for the libraries of the Middle Ages and Renaissance period. Then stepping through the publication of the rule of St. Benedict, early in the sixth century, that by the end of the 11th century that Benedictine houses possessed two sets of books—distributed among the brethren;that were kept in some safe place, and recounts that the Durham Rites spoke of book-presses standing in the cloister against the walls. Then by the beginning of the 15th century the larger monasteries at least had accumulated many hundred volumes as the number of the books had naturally increased. Less