Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity by James Raven

Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections Since Antiquity

James Raven

294 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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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 histo...

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