The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and
James Westfall Thompson was an American historian specializing in the history of medieval and early modern Europe, particularly of the Holy Roman Empire and Fra
The De Bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first monograph on library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism, Hendrickson presents a critical