History And The Written Word
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Palimpsest
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Author : Matthew Battles
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-07-19
Palimpsest written by Matthew Battles and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-19 with Social Science categories.
A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia. Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness. Portrayed in mythology as either a gift from heroes or a curse from the gods, it has been used as both an instrument of power and a channel of the divine; a means of social bonding and of individual self-definition. Now, as the revolution once wrought by the printed word gives way to the digital age, many fear that the art of writing, and the nuanced thinking nurtured by writing, are under threat. But writing itself, despite striving for permanence, is always in the midst of growth and transfiguration. Celebrating the impulse to record, invent, and make one's mark, Matthew Battles reenchants the written word for all those susceptible to the power and beauty of writing in all of its forms.
The Written World
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Author : Martin Puchner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Written World written by Martin Puchner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"The story of literature in sixteen acts, from Alexander the Great and the Iliad to ebooks and Harry Potter, this engaging book brings together remarkable people and surprising events to show how writing shaped cultures, religions, and the history of the world"--
History And The Written Word
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Author : Henry Bainton
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-01-24
History And The Written Word written by Henry Bainton and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-24 with History categories.
A thought-provoking look at the Angevin aristocracy's literary practices and historical record Coming upon the text of a document such as a charter or a letter inserted into the fabric of a medieval chronicle and quoted in full or at length, modern readers might well assume that the chronicler is simply doing what good historians have always done—that is, citing his source as evidence. Such documentary insertions are not ubiquitous in medieval historiography, however, and are in fact particularly characteristic of the history-writing produced by the Angevins in England and Northern France in the later twelfth century. In History and the Written Word, Henry Bainton puts these documentary gestures center stage in an attempt to understand what the chroniclers were doing historiographically, socially, and culturally when they transcribed a document into a work of history. Where earlier scholars who have looked at the phenomenon have explained this increased use of documents by considering the growing bureaucratic state and an increasing historiographical concern for documentary evidence, Bainton seeks to resituate these histories, together with their authors and users, within literate but sub-state networks of political power. Proposing a new category he designates "literate lordship" to describe the form of power with which documentary history-writing was especially concerned, he shows how important the vernacular was in recording the social lives of these literate lords and how they found it a particularly appropriate medium through which to record their roles in history. Drawing on the perspectives of modern and medieval narratology, medieval multilingualism, and cultural memory, History and the Written Word argues that members of an administrative elite demonstrated their mastery of the rules of literate political behavior by producing and consuming history-writing and its documents.
Beyond The Written Word
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Author : William Albert Graham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-03-11
Beyond The Written Word written by William Albert Graham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-11 with Religion categories.
The concept of 'scripture' as written religious text is re-examined, considering orally distributed sacred writings.
The Written World
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Author : Martin Puchner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Written World written by Martin Puchner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
The true story of literature -- of how writing changed civilizations, cultures and the history of the world.
Track Changes
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Author : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-02
Track Changes written by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-02 with Computers categories.
Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg’s shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or something more?
From Lived Experience To The Written Word
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Author : Pamela H. Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-09-23
From Lived Experience To The Written Word written by Pamela H. Smith and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-23 with History categories.
"This book focuses on how literate artisans began to write about their discoveries starting around 1400: in other words, it explores the origins of technical writing. Artisans and artists began to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs and recipe books rather than simply pass along their knowledge in the workshop. And they tried to articulate what the new knowledge meant. The popularity of these texts coincided with the founding of a 'new philosophy' that sought to investigate nature in a new way. Smith shows how this moment began in the unceasing trials of the craft workshop, and ended in the experimentation of the natural scientific laboratory. These epistemological developments have continued to the present day and still inform how we think about scientific knowledge"--
Masters Of The Word
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Author : William J. Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2013-04-30
Masters Of The Word written by William J. Bernstein and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with History categories.
A “riveting and thoroughly researched” history of language technology’s effect on society across millennia—from Sumerian syntax to social media hashtags (Phil Lapsley). Writing was born thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia. Spreading to Sumer, and then Egypt, this revolutionary tool allowed rulers to extend their control far and wide, giving rise to the world’s first empires. When Phoenician traders took their alphabet to Greece, literacy’s first boom led to the birth of drama and democracy. In Rome, it helped spell the downfall of the Republic. Later, medieval scriptoria and vernacular bibles gave rise to religious dissent, and with the combination of cheaper paper and Gutenberg’s printing press, the fuse of Reformation was lit. The Industrial Revolution brought the telegraph and the steam driven printing press, allowing information to move faster and wider than ever before through the invention of the newspaper. But along with radio and television, these new technologies were more easily exploited by the powerful, as seen in Germany, the Soviet Union, even Rwanda, where radio incited genocide. With the rise of carbon duplicates (Russian samizdat), photocopying (the Pentagon Papers), the internet, social media, and cell phones (the recent Arab Spring) more people have access to communications, making the world more connected than ever before. This “accessible, quite enjoyable, and highly informative read” will change the way you look at technology, history, and power (Booklist). “[Bernstein] enables us to see what remains the same, even as much has changed.” —Library Journal, “Editors’ Picks” “It brims with interesting ideas and astonishing connections.” —Phil Lapsley, author of Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell “[Bernstein’s] narrative is succinct and extremely well sourced. . . . [He] reminds us of a number of technologies whose changed roles are less widely chronicled in conventional histories of the media.” —The Irish Times
Images Texts And Marginalia In A Vows Of The Peacock Manuscript New York Pierpont Morgan Library Ms G24
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Author : Domenic Leo
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-08-16
Images Texts And Marginalia In A Vows Of The Peacock Manuscript New York Pierpont Morgan Library Ms G24 written by Domenic Leo and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-16 with History categories.
The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. Twenty-six illuminated manuscripts constitute part of a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts. One of the most provocative, (PML, MS G24), has twenty-two miniatures which illustrate chivalry and courtly love, as epitomized in the text. An unusually high number of scurrilous marginalia, however, surround them. An interdisciplinary exploration of iconography, reception, image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin.
History Of Writing
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Author : Steven R. Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2003
History Of Writing written by Steven R. Fischer and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
We learn about it from our parents and teachers, we get better at it as we grow up, and in adult life we do it without a thought - writing.