Libraries in the Ancient World
Title | Libraries in the Ancient World PDF eBook |
Author | Lionel Casson |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300088094 |
The unexpected murder in the little Cotswolds town of Colombury has everyone guessing. Before the answers are found more lives are threatened.
Ancient Libraries
Title | Ancient Libraries PDF eBook |
Author | Jason König |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 501 |
Release | 2013-04-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107244587 |
The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.
Inside Roman Libraries
Title | Inside Roman Libraries PDF eBook |
Author | George W. Houston |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469617803 |
Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity
Books on Fire
Title | Books on Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Lucien X. Polastron |
Publisher | Lucien X. POLASTRON |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2007-08-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781594771675 |
Almost as old as the idea of the library is the urge to destroy it. Author Lucien X. Polastron traces the history of this destruction, examining the causes for these disasters, the treasures that have been lost, and where the surviving books, if any, have ended up. Books on Fire received the 2004 Societe des Gens de Lettres Prize for Nonfiction/History in Paris.
Library: An Unquiet History
Title | Library: An Unquiet History PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Battles |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-02-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0393078620 |
"Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore Sun On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age. He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish—and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia. Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor and the Madman.
藏書考
Title | 藏書考 PDF eBook |
Author | Lionel Casson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Libraries |
ISBN | 9789572026571 |
The Vanished Library
Title | The Vanished Library PDF eBook |
Author | Luciano Canfora |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1990-08-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520072558 |
Recreates the world of ancient Egypt, describes how the Library of Alexandria was created, and speculates on its destruction.