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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 consequen

In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and us

Supported by the legal ideas of Hugo Grotius, the Swedish armies exploited opportunities to seize books as spoils of war from conquered enemies to an unparallel

This is the first book to consider the development of all three cultural heritage institutions – libraries, archives, and museums – and their interactions w