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Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity

By James Raven (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2004
ISBN
978-1-349-51530-1, 978-0-230-52425-5
DOI
10.1057/9780230524255
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1799199 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 294\308
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
Ancient History;Literary Theory;Cultural Theory;SoGlobal and Transnational History

Description

This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.

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