The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography, Coulson, Frank; Babcock, Robert

Автор: Thompson, Sir Edward Maunde
Название: Introduction to greek and latin palaeography
ISBN: 1904799302 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781904799306
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Описание: Traces the development of handwriting in the Greek and Latin alphabets from the earliest papyri up to the book hands of the middle ages and the court hands of the seventeenth century. This book features illustrations that have been digitally enhanced.

Автор: Cooley
Название: The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy
ISBN: 052154954X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521549547
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A thorough and up-to-date introduction for anyone who wishes to appreciate the contribution of Latin inscriptions to our understanding of Roman history in all its aspects, whether social, political, economic or cultural. Technical guidance is also provided on deciphering inscriptions face-to-face and handling specialist epigraphic publications.

Автор: Prafull Dhondopant Kulkarni
Название: Introduction to Various Alphabet Systems: International Contexts and Methods
ISBN: 1774076772 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781774076774
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Explores a range of alphabet systems. The book considers the distinctions between different types of alphabet systems and syllabaries. Additionally, it highlights the cultural significance of particular language elements which are often overlooked when studying linguistics.

Автор: Steele Philippa M
Название: Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context
ISBN: 110844234X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108442343
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The first comprehensive account of syllabic writing in ancient Cyprus, tackling epigraphic, archaeological and historical problems relating to the island`s writing systems in the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, and challenging some longstanding or traditional views. Invaluable for scholars studying Cypriot epigraphy or archaeology.

Название: Aspects of Manuscript Culture in South India
ISBN: 9004219005 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004219007
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 201890.00 T
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Описание: This volume, the outcome of a seminar organized at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, marks an important advancement in the study of South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts which are predominantly on palm leaf and rarely older than three to four centuries. Nevertheless, they continued a manuscript culture for around two millennia and had a profound impact on traditions of knowledge and culture. After an introductory essay (by J.E.M. Houben and S. Rath) addressing theoretical and historical issues of text transmission in manuscripts and in India’s remarkably strong oral memory culture, it contains twelve contributions dealing with South Indian manuscript collections in India and Europe (mainly of Vedic and Sanskrit texts) and with problems related to the scripts, the dating of manuscripts and India's literary and intellectual history.Contributors include: G. Colas, A.A. Esposito, M. Fujii, C. Galewicz, J.E.M. Houben, H. Moser, P. Perumal, K. Plofker, S. Rath, S.R. Sarma, D. Wujastyk, K.G. Zysk

Автор: Adam C. Schwartz
Название: The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: 1501514482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501514487
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 61920.00 T
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Описание: Since 1899 more than 73,000 pieces of inscribed divination shell and bone have been found inside the moated enclosure of the Anyang-core at the former capital of the late Shang state. Nearly all of these divinations were done on behalf of the Shang kingsand has led to the apt characterization that oracle bone inscriptions describe their motivations, experiences, and priorities. There are, however, much smaller sets of divination accounts that were done on behalf of members of the Shang elite other than the king.First noticed in the early 1930's, grouped and periodized shortly thereafter, oracle bone inscriptions produced explicitly by or on behalf of "royal familygroups" reveal information about key aspects of daily life in Shang societythat are barely even mentioned in Western scholarship. The newly published Huayuanzhuang East Oracle Bone inscriptions are a spectacular addition to the corpus of texts from Anyang: hundreds of intact or largely intact turtle shells and bovine scapulae densely inscribed with records of the divinations in which they were used. They were produced on the behalf of a mature prince of the royal family whose parents, both alive and still very much active, almost certainly were the twenty-first Shang king Wu Ding (r. c. 1200 B.C.) and his consort Lady Hao (fu Hao). The Huayuanzhuang East corpus is an unusually homogeneous set of more than two thousand five hundred divination records, produced over a short period of time on behalf of a prince of the royal family. There are typically multiple records of divinations regarding the same or similar topics that can be synchronized together, which not only allows for remarkable access into the esoteric world of divination practice, but also produce micro-reconstructions of what is essentially East Asia's earliest and most complete "day and month planner." Because these texts are unusually linguistically transparent and well preserved, homogeneous in orthography and content, and published to an unprecedentedly high standard, they are also ideal material for learning to read and interpret early epigraphic texts. The Huayuanzhuang East oracle bone inscriptions are a tremendously important Shang archive of "material documents" that were produced by a previously unknown divination and scribal organization. They expose us to an entirely fresh set of perspectives and preoccupationscentering ona member of the royal family at the commencement of China's historical period. The completely annotated English translation of the inscriptions is the first of its kind, and is a vibrant new source of Shang history that can be accessedto rewrite and supplement what we know about early Chinese civilization and life in the ancient world. Before the discerning reader are the motives, preoccupations, and experiences of a late Shang prince working simultaneously in service both for his Majesty, his parents, and hisown family.

Автор: Robert S. D. Crellin
Название: The Semantics of Word Division in West Semitic Writing Systems
ISBN: 1789256771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789256772
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: Presents an important new approach to key aspects of early language by considering the targets of graphic word-level units in natural language, focusing on ancient North West Semitic (NWS) writing systems.

Автор: Postgate
Название: Bronze Age Bureaucracy
ISBN: 1107619025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107619029
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using them to analyze the social and economic character of the Middle Assyrian state, as well as the roles and practices of writing.

Автор: Steele Philippa M.
Название: Cambridge Classical Studies
ISBN: 1107169674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107169678
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A pioneering treatment of the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society, throughout the second and first millennia BC. Exploring questions of literacy and identity, the book will be useful to scholars and students (epigraphists, linguists, archaeologists, historians) and to anyone interested in Cyprus or in writing systems.

Автор: Wakelin Daniel
Название: Scribal Correction and Literary Craft
ISBN: 1107431689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107431683
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Daniel Wakelin`s authoritative survey of manuscripts and their corrections combines challenging ideas about medieval scribes and about medieval attitudes to literature. Focusing particularly on the works of Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, this book will change the way in which both medieval literature and the history of the book are studied.

Автор: Zenobia Sabrina Homan
Название: Mittani Palaeography
ISBN: 9004417230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004417236
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: In Mittani Palaeography , Zenobia Homan analyses cuneiform writing from the Late Bronze Age Mittani state, which was situated in the region between modern Aleppo, Erbil and Diyarbak?r. The ancient communication network reveals a story of local scribal tradition blended with regional adaptation and international political change, reflecting the ways in which written knowledge travelled within the cuneiform culture of the Middle East. Mittani signs, their forms, and variants, are described and defined in detail utilising a large digital database and discussed in relation to other regional corpora (Assyro-Mittanian, Middle Assyrian, Nuzi and Tigunanum among others). The collected data indicate that Mittanian was comparatively standardised – an innovation for the period – signifying the existence of a centralised system of scribal training.

Автор: Isabel Laack
Название: Aztec Religion and Art of Writing: Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality
ISBN: 9004391452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004391451
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 227130.00 T
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Описание: In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality. Laack transcends the concept of “sacred scripture” traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication. This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas. 'This excellent book, written with intellectual courage and critical self-awareness, is a brilliant, multilayered thought experiment into the images and stories that made up the Nahua sense of reality as woven into their sensational ritual performances and colorful symbolic writing system.' - David Carrasco, Harvard University