Reading Survives Ruin
Ancient Libraries and Lost Knowledge
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Beschreibung
Ruin was only one danger to knowledge; a text could disappear quietly when no one copied, taught, or needed it.
The destruction of a library is often remembered as a single dramatic loss, but ancient knowledge also vanished through ordinary neglect, changing languages, fragile materials, and shifting institutions. This book follows the survival of texts through copying, teaching, collecting, and rediscovery. It offers a careful history of what ancient libraries could preserve, what they could not, and why loss is part of every archive.
Autor*in
Hollis Parr
A union organizer turned writer who fought for rights firsthand, combining self-help advocacy tools, business ethics on fair labor, and histories of worker uprisings across centuries.
Themen in »Reading Survives Ruin«
lost ancient texts ancient library destruction manuscript preservation history history of archives ancient reading culture scribal transmission