This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequen

This volume invites teachers and students in women's studies to engage with the library not as an instrument for preserving and disseminating knowledge (includi

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

Academic collection practices in recent years have extended to the private libraries of notable individual authors. As a consequence, book historians have becom