The Many Lives of a Medieval Library

Ottoman History Podcast

English - September 25, 2018 10:15 - ★★★★★ - 195 ratings
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Episode 380
with Konrad Hirschlerhosted by Nir Shafir
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When does a concubine need to join the reading group? And should the six-month old son come along as well? The answers are in our interview with Konrad Hirschler on the libraries of medieval Damascus. Using the original catalog of the Ashrafiyya Library of Damascus, Hirschler discusses the types of books that were donated to libraries, the surprising reading interests of medieval scholars, and how we might discover this lost world of bibliophiles.
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