Vanja Eror
Univerzitet u Beogradu
Pravni fakultet – Biblioteka
vanja@ius.bg.ac.rs

doi: 10.19090/cit.2018.32.83-90
No. 32 (May 2018), p. 83-90

Protection of Old and Rare Written Materials in Case of War Threats

Summary

The paper deals with legal regulations on protection of old and rare written materials during wars. Work in this area has been intensifi ed since the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century. The international conventions issued in The Hague in 1899 and 1907, as part of the international law of war, are the fi rst documents citing cultural property as a subject of protection from warfare. Great devastation in wars around the world, destruction and theft of cultural goods in the First, and then in the Second World War, have infl uenced the serious approach to the international protection of cultural property. Since then, several international conferences have been held and a number of regulations, declarations and conventions have been adopted in the world and in Europe, as well as in Serbia, in order to protect the old and rare books and the cultural heritage as a whole.

Keywords:

old and rare books, cultural property, legal protection, immediate danger of war, armed confl icts

Submitted: 28th January 2018
Correction to the manuscript: 13th February 2018
Accepted for publication: 18th February 2018

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