Sammeln und Zerstreuen. Bedingungen historischer Überlieferung in Sachsen-Anhalt (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte Sachsen-Anhalts 21)

How do collections come about? Why are they broken up or destroyed? What determined the collectibility of objects in different historical contexts? What criteria do we apply today and for what motives?

These questions were the focus of the ninth Saxony-Anhalt State History Day, which was organised in 2019 by the Research Library for Reformation Studies in cooperation with the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt and the Archive of the Ev. Church of Anhalt in Lutherstadt Wittenberg. Thematically, the range of topics covered ranged from the breakup of the relic collection of the Elector Friedrich the Wise to the everyday culture of the GDR. Mitteldeutscher Verlag has now published an anthology for this conference. The book can be purchased from bookstores or directly from the publisher.