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Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important – and largely unrecognized – role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.

027 --- 02 <09> --- 27 <4> --- 027.7 --- 027.7 Bibliotheken voor Hoger Onderwijs en universiteiten --- Bibliotheken voor Hoger Onderwijs en universiteiten --- 02 <09> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- 027 Algemene bibliotheken --- Algemene bibliotheken --- 027 General libraries --- General libraries --- 27 <4> Histoire de l'Eglise--Europa --- 27 <4> Kerkgeschiedenis--Europa --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Europa --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Europa --- Book history --- libraries [institutions] --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Libraries --- Libraries and community --- Libraries and society --- Books and reading --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Society and libraries --- Community and libraries --- Communities --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- History. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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Winner of the 2018 Josef IJsewijn Prize for Best Book on a Neo-Latin Topic Although many humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini, had written briefly about library history, the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first self-contained monograph on the topic. The De bibliothecis proved to be a seminal achievement, both in redefining the scope of library history and in articulating a vision of a public, secular, research institution for the humanities. It was repeatedly reprinted and translated, plagiarized and epitomized. Through the end of the nineteenth century, scholars turned to it as the ultimate foundation for any discussion of library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism , Hendrickson presents a critical edition of Lipsius’s work with introductory studies, a Latin text, English translation, and a substantial historical commentary.

Libraries --- Humanism --- Renaissance. --- Bibliothèques --- Humanisme --- Renaissance --- History --- Histoire --- Lipsius, Justus, --- Criticism and interpretaion. --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Middle Ages --- Philosophy --- Classical education --- Classical philology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Lipsius, Justus --- Lips, Joest --- Lipse, Juste --- Lips, Joose --- Lips, Josse --- Lipsio, Giusto --- Lipsio, Justo --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- History of civilization --- Library research --- Antiquity --- 02 <09> --- 027 --- 094 LIPSIUS, JUSTUS --- 027 Algemene bibliotheken --- Algemene bibliotheken --- 02 <09> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis --- 094 LIPSIUS, JUSTUS Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--LIPSIUS, JUSTUS --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--LIPSIUS, JUSTUS --- Criticism and interpretaion --- Criticism and interpretation --- Bibliothèques --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lips, Joest, --- Lipse, Juste, --- Lipsii, Justi, --- Lipsio, Giusto, --- Lipsius, I. --- Lipsius, Iustus, --- Lipsius, J. --- 027 General libraries --- General libraries --- Libraries - History - To 400 --- Humanism - Europe - History - 16th century --- Lipsius, Justus, - 1547-1606. - De bibliothecis syntagma --- Lipsius, Justus, - 1547-1606 - Criticism and interpretation --- Europe - Intellectual life - 16th century --- Lipsius, Justus, - 1547-1606