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West, Susie
(2002).
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41154915
Abstract
The material environment for reading and collecting books in England is an emerging field of study, thanks to scholarship within book history and design history. New research identifies the lost location of the early modern library room for the book collection at Penshurst Place, home of the Sidney family. Archives sources are used to reconstruct the use of space around the medieval house and to consider the subsidiary studies identified around the house. The richly furnished library room is discussed in its wider cultural context for the moral dimension of material consumption.
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- Item ORO ID
- 40375
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0068-6611
- Keywords
- book history; library architecture; Sidney Penshurst; book rooms; library furniture
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > Art History
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Copyright Holders
- © 2002 Cambridge Bibliographical Society
- Depositing User
- Susie West