Ancient Libraries
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Author | : Jason König |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107244587 |
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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.
Author | : George W. Houston |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469617803 |
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Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity
Author | : Lionel Casson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300088094 |
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The unexpected murder in the little Cotswolds town of Colombury has everyone guessing. Before the answers are found more lives are threatened.
Author | : Lucien X. Polastron |
Publisher | : Lucien X. POLASTRON |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2007-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781594771675 |
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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.
Author | : Kim Ryholt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192523996 |
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The creation of the Library of Alexandria is widely regarded as one of the great achievements in the history of humankind - a giant endeavour to amass all known literature and scholarly texts in one central location, so as to preserve it and make it available for the public. In turn, this event has been viewed as a historical turning point that separates the ancient world from classical antiquity. Standard works on the library continue to present the idea behind the institution as novel and, at least implicitly, as a product of Greek thought. Yet, although the scale of the collection in Alexandria seems to have been unprecedented, the notion of creating central repositories of knowledge, while perhaps new to Greek tradition, was age-old in the Near East where the building was erected. Here the existence of libraries can be traced back another two millennia, from the twenty-seventh century BCE to the third century CE, and so the creation of the Library in Alexandria was not so much the beginning of an intellectual adventure as the impressive culmination of a very long tradition. This volume presents the first comprehensive study of these ancient libraries across the 'Cradle of Civilization' and traces their institutional and scholarly roots back to the early cities and states and the advent of writing itself. Leading specialists in the intellectual history of each individual period and region covered in the volume present and discuss the enormous textual and archaeological material available on the early collections, offering a uniquely readable account intended for a broad audience of the libraries in Egypt and Western Asia as centres of knowledge prior to the famous Library of Alexandria.
Author | : James Westfall Thompson |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473389992 |
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James Westfall Thompson was an American historian specializing in the history of medieval and early modern Europe, particularly of the Holy Roman Empire and France. Thompson's work on ancient libraries gives an in depth look in to how the Libraries of the ancient East, ancient Greece and ancient Rome were established and managed. It also contains technical information such as the format of books, library architecture, cataloguing and classification, administration, book production, and bookselling.
Author | : Mostafa el- Abbadi |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004165452 |
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This book aims at presenting a new discussion of primary sources by renowned scholars of the long disputed question of "What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria"? The treatment includes a brilliant presentation of cultural Alexandrian life in late antiquity.
Author | : Thomas Hendrickson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2017-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004338179 |
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Winner of the 2018 Josef IJsewijn Prize for Best Book on a Neo-Latin Topic Although many humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini, had written briefly about library history, the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first self-contained monograph on the topic. The De bibliothecis proved to be a seminal achievement, both in redefining the scope of library history and in articulating a vision of a public, secular, research institution for the humanities. It was repeatedly reprinted and translated, plagiarized and epitomized. Through the end of the nineteenth century, scholars turned to it as the ultimate foundation for any discussion of library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism, Hendrickson presents a critical edition of Lipsius’s work with introductory studies, a Latin text, English translation, and a substantial historical commentary.
Author | : Jason König |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107012562 |
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The libraries of the ancient world were completely unlike those we know today. This book explores and explains those differences.
Author | : Montague Rhodes James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Dover priory |
ISBN | : |
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The histories and contents of some very ancient libraries in Kent, England and where some of their contents may be found.