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The article discusses the changes in reading practices of monks in the Melk monastery under the impact of the Enlightenment. Melk was a famous Benedictine monastery. The author bases his conclusions on the research in the libraries and on sources related to book culture. It demonstrates that daily life and intellectual culture of the monks did not correspond with the traditional clichĂŠ of "enemies of the Enlightenment".
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