Download or read book Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary written by G. Partington and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.