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Library History: Collectors. Texts. Buildings

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Since ancient times, libraries have carefully preserved and transmitted a vast amount of cultural memory from civilization to civilization. But should we understand them simply as institutions of cultural exchange? Or is a library a collection of books and the space where they are stored? Can it become a means of legitimizing power, a true political trophy, or a scientific laboratory?

The renowned French researcher Frédéric Barbier tells the history of these unique institutions from their very origins, from the advent of librarianship to systematic and alphabetical catalogs, from Gutenberg's incredible invention to digital libraries on the internet.

The ancient library of Ashurbanipal, the Alexandrian Museum, the manuscripts of the Carolingian Renaissance, monastic and royal, private and public libraries—libraries create a unique intellectual world with its own rules.
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