Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity. Studies in Text Transmission

• Tác giả: Dirk Rohmann
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3110486070
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 002.09015 The book
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (369 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 235328

Tóm tắt

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 destruction, censorship or suppression through prohibition of the copying of manuscripts. This includes texts which were to become the basis for modern philosophy and science.