Lost libraries: the destruction of great book collections since antiquity

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This volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss.

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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.