Late fine - your chance of salvation

[sir_guinglain]

"To ensure their safe return, some monasteries put their volumes under anathemata, threatening unfaithful borrowers with excommunication." -- Andrew Pettigree and Arthur der Weduwen, The Library (London: Profile Books, 2021), p 40

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[vivdunstan]

I picked up a half price copy of the print version of this in the recent Blackwells sale, but realised I really needed to read it on Kindle, so bought that too! I have started reading, but was finding it a bit dry earlier on for the mood I was in then. Will get back to it. It’s a close book to my own PhD field.

I know both Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen via the St Andrews book conferences I’ve been to a lot. Andrew especially, who I have also run into at the SHARP book history conferences, for example at the Paris one.

Another book in a similar vein, but perhaps a more accessible read, is Dennis Duncan’s “Index, A History of the”. I enjoyed that immensely.

[sir_guinglain]

The Library looks very promising on first acquaintance - often all I manage of books these days - and Index, A History of the is something I'll have to look for!