Book destruction from the Medieval to the contemporary

Smyth, Adam and Partington, Gillian, eds. (2014) Book destruction from the Medieval to the contemporary. New Directions in Book History. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-73. ISBN 9781137367655.

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Official URL: http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137367655

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Book synopsis: This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.

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Item Type:	Book
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Depositing User:	Administrator
Date Deposited:	12 Feb 2016 15:17
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2023 12:37
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14313

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