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crl-24991	Dyck, Jason	Richard Ovenden. Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. 308p. $29.95 (ISBN 978-0-674-24120-6).	2021	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1183	54	56	Ovenden jumps to the Reformation in the next two chapters, highlighting the massive number of books and manuscripts that were either burned or sold as scrap paper. A troubling aspect of Burning the Books is that knowledge, books, and memory institu- tions are largely only a part of the history of Western civilization.	cache/crl-24991.pdf	txt/crl-24991.txt