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An account of books destroyed, misplaced, never finished, or never even begun - from ancient Greek and Arabic masters through Shakespeare, Dante and Hemingway right up to the present day.

Lost books -- History. --- Lost books. --- Lost literature.

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Lost Books and Printing in London, 1557-1640 is the first attempt to analyse systematically the entries relating to lost books in the Stationers’ Company Register. Books played a fundamental role in early modern society and are key sources for our comprehension of the political, religious, economic and cultural aspects of the age. Over time, the loss of these books has presented a significant barrier to our understanding of the past. The monopoly of the Stationers’ Company centralised book production in England to London with printing jobs carried out by members documented in a Register. Using modern digital approaches to bibliography, Alexandra Hill uses the Register to reclaim knowledge of the English book trade and print culture that would otherwise be lost.

Printing --- Lost books --- Books --- History --- E-books --- Book history --- guilds --- book history --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- England --- Stationers' Company (London, England) --- Companie of Stationers (London, England) --- Company of Stationers (London, England) --- Company of Stationers of London --- London. --- Societie of Stationers (London, England) --- Worshipful Company of Stationers (London, England) --- Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (London, England)

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"This volume collects all that remains of the enigmatic late antique author Bouttios. On the basis of these fragments, Bouttios is identified as a Christian, placed in Antioch, and dated to the later fourth century - quite likely writing during the emperor Julian's stay in Antioch in 362-363. Bouttios's composition, a tendentious and didactic fiction that purported to be history, is further set in the context of fourth-century debates between pagans and Christians over the gods, luck, good government and kingship, and the characters of Constatine and Julian. After outlining the circumstances of Bouttios's life and work, the book then discusses specific topics that appear in the fragments. The account of the gods assigned to Bouttios is shown to be the culmination of both the critique of traditional theology developed within Greco-Roma philosophy and literature and the assault on the pagan pantheon by Christian apologists; virgin sacrifices said to accompany the founding of ancient cities are discussed with regard to the figure of Tyche (the goddess of luck), Christian's fraught relationship with her, and her role in ancient historiography. Finally, Bouttios's treatment of these sacrifices in particular and his work more generally and compared to the form, thought, and intention of modern conspiracy theories - situating his writing in what Richard Hofstadter termed 'the paranoid style'." Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch undertakes the exciting, if laborious, task of assembling clues and piecing back together a book that had disappeared from our library of Greek and Roman works. But it does not merely add another author to the bibliography of antiquity and place him in fourth-century Antioch. It shows how the gods could be reduced to historical characters, the powerful goddess of luck turned into a pitiful victim of virgin sacrifice, and respected emperors defamed as despots, and, in sum, how the writing of history could be exploited for partisan purposes. We see how people in what we consider the distant past thought about their own history, and how they discussed momentous political and social issues across a seemingly insurmountable divide in a period of existential crisis.

Church history --- Christianity and other religions --- Lost books --- Historiography --- Sacrifice of virgins --- Conspiracy theories --- Books --- History --- Virgin sacrifice --- Virgins, Sacrifice of --- Human sacrifice --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Greek --- Errors, inventions, etc. --- Bouttios. --- Tyche --- Fortuna --- Antioch in Pisidia (Extinct city) --- Antioch (Isparta İli, Turkey : Extinct city) --- Caesarea Antiochia (Extinct city) --- Turkey --- Historiography. --- Antiquities --- Bouttios --- Boúttios --- Bóttios --- Bruttius --- Βώττιος --- Christianity. --- Conspiracy theories. --- Greeks --- Interfaith relations. --- Lost books. --- Sacrifice of virgins. --- Greek. --- Primitive and early church. --- Religion. --- History. --- Tyche, --- 30-600. --- 30-600 --- Eglise --- Christianisme et autres religions --- Livres perdus --- Historiographie --- Sacrifice des vierges --- Théories du complot --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Antioche de Pisidie (Ville ancienne)