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Title Lost libraries : the destruction of great book collections since antiquity / edited by James Raven.

Imprint Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  027.009 L899 2004    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The resonances of loss / James Raven -- Lost libraries of ancient Mesopotamia / Jeremy Black -- Aristotle's 'Peripatetic' Library / T. Keith Dix -- Text to trophy: shifting representations of Regiomontanus's Library / Richard L. Kremer -- The Corvina Library and the Lost Royal Hungarian Archive / Martyn Rady -- Habits of manuscript-collecting: the dispersals of the Library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester / David Rundle -- 'The manuscripts flew about like butterflies': the break-up of English libraries in the sixteenth century -- Secularization and Monastic libraries in Austria / Friedrich Buchmayr -- Lost Royal libraries and Hanoverian court culture / Clarissa Campbell Orr -- Revolutionary seizures and their consequences for French library history / Dominique Varry -- A plague of books: the dispersal and disappearance of the Diocesan libraries of the Church of Ireland / Margaret Connolly -- The lost Jewish libraries of Vilna and the Frankfurt Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage / Sem C. Sutter -- China's Roosevelt Library / Rui Wang and Yulin Yang -- China's destruction of the libraries of Tibet / Rebecca J. Knuth -- Burn the books / Robert J. Fyne.
Summary This volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss.
Subject Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History -- Case studies.
Libraries -- History -- Case studies.
Libraries and state -- History -- Case studies.
Libraries and society -- History -- Case studies.
Censorship -- History -- Case studies.
Cultural property -- History -- Case studies.
Censorship. (OCoLC)fst00850568
Cultural property. (OCoLC)fst00885014
Libraries. (OCoLC)fst00997341
Libraries and society. (OCoLC)fst00997566
Libraries and state. (OCoLC)fst00997572
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage. (OCoLC)fst00997392
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Raven, James, 1959-
ISBN 1403921199
9781403921192
9780230524255
0230524257

 
    
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