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Autore |
Popa Opritsa D |
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Titolo |
Bibliophiles and bibliothieves [[electronic resource] ] : the search for the Hildebrandslied and the Willehalm Codex / / Opritsa D. Popa ; with a preface by Winder McConnell |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : W. de Gruyter, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-19560-3 |
9786612195600 |
3-11-020190-9 |
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Edizione |
[Reprint 2015] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cultural property studies = Schriften zum Kulturgüterschutz |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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World War, 1939-1945 - Germany |
World War, 1939-1945 - Destruction and pillage - Germany |
Art treasures in war - Germany |
Cultural property - Germany |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Captions -- Introduction and Acknowledgments -- Liber Sapientiae and Willehalm Codex, 1939-2002 - A Chronology -- Chapter 1: “They’ve sown the wind and now they reap the whirlwind” -- Chapter 2: “Habent Sua Fata Libelli” - Books Have Their Own Destiny -- Chapter 3: Countdown to Surrender -- Chapter 4: “Protect and Respect These Symbols...” -- Chapter 5: Of US Safe keepers, Soviet Trophy Commissars and Marauding Allied Soldiers -- Chapter 6: “Enjoy the War, the Peace Is Going to be Terrible!” -- Chapter 7: Hope Deferred -- Chapter 8: Going, Going, Gone! -- Chapter 9: “Belle of the Books” -- Chapter 10: The Professor -- Chapter 11: The Countess of Camarillo -- Chapter 12: Ardelia -- Chapter 13: From the Ashes of the Phoenix -- Chapter 14: Return of the Wounded Warrior -- Chapter 15: Eyewitness -- Chapter 16: Ten Years Later... Proof, Proof and More Proof -- Chapter 17: To Err is Human, to Admit, Divine -- Chapter 18 : The Owl of Minerva -- Chapter 19: “The Last, the Worst, Dull Spoiler, Who Was |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Bibliophiles and Bibliothieves, Opritsa Popa has documented what might justifiably be described as the most celebrated case of looting of two German cultural treasures by a member of the U.S. Army at the end of World War II and their subsequent odyssey across both an ocean and a continent: the pilfering from a cellar in Bad Wildungen of the ninth-century Liber Sapientiae, containing the two leaves of the oldest extant German heroic poem, the Old High German Hildebrandslied, along with the fourteenth-century illuminated Willehalm codex, both of which had been removed from the State Library in Kassel for protection from bombing raids. |
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