Peddling Wonderment, Selling Privilege: Launching the Market for Medieval Books in Antebellum New York

Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts were collected in North America from about 1820. Four key sources of them can be identified: 1. Ancestral ownership of books brought by early settlers; 2. Acquisitions by missionaries and scholars; 3. Mementos acquired by elites on European Grand Tours; 4. Purcha...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott Gwara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil 2020-01-01
Series:Perspectives Médiévales
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/peme/20441
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!