The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9781101974063ISBN-10:1101974060UPC:9781101974063Book Category:History, ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, History, AncientBook Topic:MedievalSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC2HXC5TP7
After the fall of Rome, as civilizations collapsed and libraries burned, ancient knowledge that would eventually fuel the Renaissance was at risk of being lost. This thrilling history tracks three crucial books as they were passed hand to hand through seven cities during a perilous thousand-year journey of survival. After the great library at Alexandria was destroyed, Baghdad, Cordoba, Toledo,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9781101974063ISBN-10:1101974060UPC:9781101974063Book Category:History, ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, History, AncientBook Topic:MedievalSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC2HXC5TP7
VIOLET MOLLER is a historian and writer based near Oxford, England. She received a PhD in intellectual history from Edinburgh University, where she wrote her dissertation on the library of a sixteenth century scholar. She has written three pop reference books for the publishing arm of the Bodleian Library. The Map of Knowledge is her first narrative history.
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