Product Description: The medieval university at Cambridge was a centre for the circulation of books. In complicated networks of acquisition and exchange, books were bought, borrowed, copied, and bequeathed. Colleges came to own collections of books for the use of their fellows, and in the late middle ages many colleges built library-rooms to house their books...read more

Product Description: A biography designed to celebrate the memory of historian and monk Father David Knowles while those who knew him well are still alive. Its authors were all his friends, and in some sense his disciples and pupils.