Edmund Geste and his Books: Reconstructing the Library of a Cambridge Don and Elizabethan Bishop

摘要

Edmund Geste (1514-1577) is not among the most famous Elizabethan bishops, but his life followed a pattern which was common among his better known contemporaries. Like John Jewel and Matthew Parker, he began a promising academic career during the reigns of Henry and Edward, but was deprived under Mary. He later became a bishop under Elizabeth, serving first at Rochester and then at Salisbury. During this time, he amassed a substantial personal library, which, at his death, he bequeathed to Salisbury Cathedral.