Book contents
- History in Flames
- History in Flames
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Our Knowledge of the Past
- Chapter 2 Libraries and Archives
- Chapter 3 What Has Been Lost?
- Chapter 4 A Narrow Escape: Beowulf
- Chapter 5 ‘Away with the Learning of the Clerks!’
- Chapter 6 Strasbourg, 24 August 1870: The Garden of Delights
- Chapter 7 Dublin, 30 June 1922: The Public Record Office of Ireland
- Chapter 8 Naples, 30 September 1943: The State Archive
- Chapter 9 Hanover, 9 October 1943: The Ebstorf Map
- Chapter 10 Chartres, 26 May 1944: The Municipal Library
- Conclusion
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 August 2024
- History in Flames
- History in Flames
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Our Knowledge of the Past
- Chapter 2 Libraries and Archives
- Chapter 3 What Has Been Lost?
- Chapter 4 A Narrow Escape: Beowulf
- Chapter 5 ‘Away with the Learning of the Clerks!’
- Chapter 6 Strasbourg, 24 August 1870: The Garden of Delights
- Chapter 7 Dublin, 30 June 1922: The Public Record Office of Ireland
- Chapter 8 Naples, 30 September 1943: The State Archive
- Chapter 9 Hanover, 9 October 1943: The Ebstorf Map
- Chapter 10 Chartres, 26 May 1944: The Municipal Library
- Conclusion
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
Summary
A summing up, touching upon the role of the state and nationalism both in creating central institutions for the study and preservation of medieval manuscript material and in pursuing increasingly destructive warfare that often annihilated that same material.
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- History in FlamesThe Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts, pp. 179 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024