1560s-1570s: Builds the Mortlake library
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1560s-1570s: Builds the Mortlake library - Biography. Dee developed the Mortlake library into a working scholarly collection used for reading, consultation, writing, and social exchange.
Summary
Dee developed the Mortlake library into a working scholarly collection used for reading, consultation, writing, and social exchange.
Essay
Dee developed the Mortlake library into a working scholarly collection used for reading, consultation, writing, and social exchange.
The library made Dee useful to visitors and patrons, while also making his intellectual life materially vulnerable to loss and dispersal.
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. 20-28
1560s-1570s
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The library made Dee useful to visitors and patrons, while also making his intellectual life materially vulnerable to loss and dispersal.
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. 20-28
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