# Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Author: Merryweather, F. Somner (Frederick Somner), 1827-1900 Genre: Bibliomania Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21630 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Bibliomania+in+the+Middle+Ages+Merryweather&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary 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 what few anticipated, and some even now deny, viz., that here and there great glimmerings of learning are perceivable; and although debased, and often barbarous too, they were not quite so bad as historians have usually proclaimed them. It may surprise some, however, that an attempt should be made to prove that, in the olden time in "merrie Englande," a passion which Dibdin has christened Bibliomania, existed then, and that there w... ## Chapters - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/bibliomania-in-the-middle-ages-21630/chapters/7/index.md)