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...
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Société de Langues et de Littératures Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Perspectives Médiévales |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/peme/20441 |
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