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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 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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- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Resonances of Loss
- 2 Lost Libraries of Ancient Mesopotamia
- 3 Aristotleâs âPeripateticâ Library
- 4 Text to Trophy: Shifting Representations of Regiomontanusâs Library
- 5 The Corvina Library and the Lost Royal Hungarian Archive
- 6 Habits of Manuscript-Collecting: The Dispersals of the Library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester
- 7 âThe Manuscripts flew about like Butterfliesâ: The Break-Up of English Libraries in the Sixteenth Century
- 8 Secularization and Monastic Libraries in Austria
- 9 Lost Royal Libraries and Hanoverian Court Culture
- 10 Revolutionary Seizures and their Consequences for French Library History
- 11 A Plague of Books: The Dispersal and Disappearance of the Diocesan Libraries of the Church of Ireland
- 12 The Lost Jewish Libraries of Vilna and the Frankfurt Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage
- 13 Chinaâs Roosevelt Library
- 14 Chinaâs Destruction of the Libraries of Tibet
- 15 Burn the Books
- Index