Bibliomania in the Middle Ages

CHAPTER I.

_Introductory Remarks--Monachism--Book Destroyers--Effects of the Reformation on Monkish Learning, etc._

In recent times, in spite of all those outcries which have been so repeatedly raised against the illiterate state of the dark ages, many and valuable efforts have been made towards a just elucidation of those monkish days. These labors have produced evidence of w...