Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity
James Raven (editor)
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 in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
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Year:
2004
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Language:
english
Pages:
309
ISBN 10:
0230524257
ISBN 13:
9781403921192
File:
PDF, 1.80 MB
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english, 2004
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