delivered to him from all over the country documents that have been subjected to the ravages of war just like the people in conflict areas state of the art technology makes an exact copy everything stain finds its way into the digital world. books and people have found refuge in air bill a city in the heart of kurdish iraq with well over a million inhabitants mosul is less than ninety kilometers away refugees from all over iraq and syria have become stranded here. both father najib and historical library of the dominican monks of mosul have already fled twice from the so-called islamic state.
wrote a textbook that was in use for centuries in it he recommended that monk should also read and copy works by pagan authors because reading he emphasized is the mother of all knowledge but he had to be careful by now christianity was gathering force it had become the official religion of the roman empire and the works of pagan authors were burnt after all why did people need knowledge and they were supposed to believe. the fifth century things truly fall apart. or begin seriously to fall apart in the roman world. the script orio places where people copied manuscripts are shut down no one wants to buy new manuscripts no one has time to
a set of gestures for the kind of book that you would read a christian book or i think the ordinary pagan book that was not particularly problematical was i think you just scratched behind your ear as if you were you had a louse there but if it was a text regarded as particularly problematic are dangerous then you made a. kind of gagging gesture. chance preference ignorance which book was copied and which was and depended on many factors often the fate of a book on by a thread some manuscripts survive solely as a single copy and in many cases it was the humanists who rescued it. but referring to get money or buy tacitus one historian claimed that it would have been better if some works had vanished yet to get money or is one of the few sources of information on the early period in northern europe without tacitus his
more clearly in order to obtain further sequences of letters but all this has produced is a sad child copy of an ancient box hundreds of thousands of books were in circulation in classical times and this is all that remains of them. sarajevo lost its box not as a result of a natural disaster but through a horrific war. in august one thousand nine hundred two the bosnian serb army shelled the national library of bosnia and herzegovina destroying it completely. within the lives of the of the serbs not only had their sights set on the city s inhabitants of living they also deliberately wanted to obliterate sarajevo s cultural history you know move all the of the.