Episode 39: Où est la bibliothèque?
Ask a Medievalist
English - October 03, 2021 01:56 - 5 MBHistory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Summary What was the one weird habit of the Ptolemys that librarians hated? What trick did early indexers use for organizing collections? And what major library lost some really important documents–and tried to keep it a secret? From Alexandria to the Medieval monastery, let’s talk about the evolution of libraries over the course of a …