Late 1580s-1590s: Mortlake library damaged and dispersed
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Late 1580s-1590s: Mortlake library damaged and dispersed - Biography. During Dee's absence and later decline, the Mortlake library suffered loss, damage, and dispersal.
Summary
During Dee's absence and later decline, the Mortlake library suffered loss, damage, and dispersal.
Essay
During Dee's absence and later decline, the Mortlake library suffered loss, damage, and dispersal.
The fate of the library became a material symbol of Dee's vulnerability and the fragility of learned capital.
Bibliographical reference: William H. Sherman, John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (University of Massachusetts Press), pp. 56-80; Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge University Press), pp. 251-257
Late 1580s-1590s
Books and household
The fate of the library became a material symbol of Dee's vulnerability and the fragility of learned capital.
William H. Sherman, John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (University of Massachusetts Press), pp. 56-80; Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge University Press), pp. 251-257
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