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Vor 80 Jahren, am 10. Mai 1933, wurden in Berlin unter der Aufsicht von Joseph Goebbels die Werke von zahlreichen deutschen Autoren ins Feuer geworfen. Nur ein einziger dieser Autoren war dabei persönlich anwesend. Es war Erich Kästner. Erich Kästner ist doppelter Kronzeuge der …
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe. this book includes the development of Nazi censorship policies, the Library of the Vilna ghetto, the use of fine printing by the Dutch underground, and the experience of read…
Partiendo del hecho de que en todas las épocas y civilizaciones el libro, como fuente de saber, ha debido luchar contra la intransigencia y la barbarie, el autor realiza un recorrido por la historia universal de la destrucción de los libros, pasto de la voracidad de los insectos…
It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideratio…
"Author Dirk Rohmann assembles the evidence for the role played in book-burning by Christian institutions, writers, and saints during the Roman Empire. While book-burning functioned as a recognized cultural practice, and Rohmann acknowledges the wide variety of motivations at wo…
The role of Christian institutions, writers and saints in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little consideration. The author argues that texts and ideas from materialistic philosophical traditions were vulnerable to destr…
It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideratio…
"The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction--and surprising survival--of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially th…
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction--and surprising survival--of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially thr…
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction--and surprising survival--of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially thr…
This engaging history of book burning and its cultural significance focuses on the notorious Nazi burnings while exploring the broader history of the destruction of books by fire.