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Richard Sharpe (1954 2020) was Professor of Diplomatic in the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College. As well as being one of the country's leading experts on medieval books and libraries, he was also a foremost critic and editor of medieval Latin texts and charters. For thirty years he had the oversight of a monumental series, the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, which aims to gather, print and interpret the scattered documentary evidence for book ownership in the middle ages. James Willoughby is Research Fellow in Medieval History at New College, Oxford.
"""An expert on medieval books and libraries, Sharpe questioned the established belief that monastic libraries were the primary source of medieval religious texts at the time of their suppression by King Henry VIII. The destruction of these monastic libraries resulted in the devastating loss of these texts, but Sharpe shows how evidence from library catalogs, personal collections, and the book trade allows modern scholars to reconstruct much of what was previously thought lost.""-- ""Choice"""
