THE ATHENAEUMBibliomania in the Middle AgesF. Somner Merryweather
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Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA defence of the medieval monasteries as places where books were copied, collected and loved, published in 1849. Merryweather gathers abbots and monks who would give almost anything for a manuscript. He is partisan, and says so.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 5 hr 40 min
- Where to find it
- On the Archive shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #21630. In the public domain in the United States.