The content and layout of our modern libraries evolved from monastic book presses and collections in the hands of noblemen and early institutions of learning such as the Sorbonne.
Before the printing press, monks and scribes laboured for months and even years to copy and produce a singe book. Learn the fascinating history of how these small lights of knowledge grew into the great libraries of the Middle Ages that would fuel the glory of the Renaissance.
The content and layout of our modern libraries evolved from monastic book presses and collections in the hands of noblemen and early institutions of learning such as the Sorbonne.
