hardcover, dust jacket
2010 · New Castle, Delaware
by Staikos, Konstantinos
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, 2010. hardcover, dust jacket. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 532 pages. Volume IV. This fourth volume discusses the publishing procedure for secular and religious writings of late antiquity and the factors that led to the impoverishment of the monumental libraries in Rome. New centers of learning grew up in the monasteries, where great libraries containing educational and instructive books and representative works of Christian literature came into being. Monastic libraries were founded throughout Europe, including the regions with Celtic and Anglo-Saxon populations: (truncated)