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Ancient Libraries
Language: en
Pages: 501
Authors: Jason König
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The libraries of the ancient world were completely unlike those we know today. This book explores and explains those differences.
Ancient Libraries
Language: en
Pages: 501
Authors: Jason König
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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
Ancient Libraries
Language: en
Pages: 128
Authors: James Westfall Thompson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-31 - Publisher: Read Books Ltd

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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 Fra
Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Thomas Hendrickson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-27 - Publisher: BRILL

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The De Bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first monograph on library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism, Hendrickson presents a critical
The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover
Language: en
Pages: 656
Authors: Montague Rhodes James
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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M. R. James' monumental study of three important monastic libraries and the fate of their manuscripts after the English Reformation.