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Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity, edited by James Raven
A collection of essays on the history of the many, many great collections and books we’ve lost through the ages, and continue to lose in modern days. A must-read for anyone who wants to learn about the erosion of human knowledge.
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, ...
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