Reviews: Der Papst und das Buch im Spätmittelalter (1350–1500). Bildungsvoraussetzung, Handschriftenherstellung, Bibliotheksgebrauch. Edited by Rainer Berndt, sj. (Erudiri Sapientia, xiii.) Pp. 667 incl. 4 ills and 31 colour plates. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2018. €79. 978 3 402 10445 3 ; 1615 441X

978 3 402 10445 3 ; 1615 441X The late medieval papacy's innovations with written records are well-known: this volume investigates another aspect of papal literacy, namely libraries and private book collections at the papal court. The first part of this volume consists of essays on personal book collections, the physical disposition of libraries and a culture of learnedness in the fifteenth-century papal court. [...]Nicolas Weill-Parot examines Cardinal Pedro Garsia's use of medieval texts in his refutation of Pico della Mirandola.