Marsh's library--a mirror on the world

law, learning and libraries, 1650-1750

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today


Buy this book

Last edited by ImportBot
February 17, 2024 | History

Marsh's library--a mirror on the world

law, learning and libraries, 1650-1750

This volume introduces the reader to a world of books, pamphlets, illustrations and portraits. It describes in detail the work of Archbishop Marsh and the development of the library through the 19th and 20th centuries.

Publish Date
Publisher
Four Courts Press
Language
English
Pages
311

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Marsh's library--a mirror on the world
Marsh's library--a mirror on the world: law, learning and libraries, 1650-1750
2009, Four Courts Press
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Table of Contents

Expanding British world : looking backward and forward from the turn of the seventeenth century -- Jack P. Greene
6 Anne, chapter 19 : 'settling and preserving a publick library for ever' -- W.N. Osborough
Bishops as legislators : Marsh and his contemporaries -- D.W. Hayton
Aspects of the role of the Holy Office in Irish church affairs in the early seventeenth century -- Thomas O'Connor
Location of learning in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland -- Michael Brown
Philip Skelton and the Irish origins of the British Protestant counter-enlightenment -- C.D.A. Leighton
Monuments, memorials and martyrs in French Protestantism after the Revocation : the case of Louis de Marolles -- Ruth Whelan
Library of Élie Bouhéreau : the intellectual universe of a Huguenot refugee and his family -- Philip Benedict and Pierre-Olivier Léchot
Bishop Stearne's collection of books and manuscripts -- Toby Barnard
Writing history in seventeenth-century Ireland : Dudley Loftus' annals -- Elizabethanne Boran
Manuscript collectors in the age of Marsh -- Raymond Gillespie
Richard Helsham, Jonathan Swift, and the library of John Putland -- A.C. Elias
Whose books? : the Synge library catalogue of 1763 -- Marie-Louise Legg.

Edition Notes

Papers given at a conference, 'Marsh's Library: a mirror on the world', 18th - 20th October 2007, in the library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Dublin, Portland, OR

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
027.0418/35
Library of Congress
Z792.5.M37 M323 2009, Z792.5.M37 M37 2009, Z792.5

The Physical Object

Pagination
311 pages
Number of pages
311

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31814128M
Internet Archive
isbn_9781846821523
ISBN 10
1846821525
ISBN 13
9781846821523
LCCN
2009284747
OCLC/WorldCat
303095664

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
February 17, 2024 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
December 23, 2020 Created by MARC Bot import new book