Writing Around The Ancient Mediterranean
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Writing Around The Ancient Mediterranean
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Author : Philippa M. Steele
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2022-10-06
Writing Around The Ancient Mediterranean written by Philippa M. Steele and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-06 with History categories.
Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes – from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume presents a group of papers by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. They focus on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.
Writing Around The Ancient Mediterranean
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Author : Philippa M. Steele
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Writing Around The Ancient Mediterranean written by Philippa M. Steele and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History, Ancient categories.
Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume presents a group of papers by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. They focus on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.
Paths Into Script Formation In The Ancient Mediterranean
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Author : S. Ferrara
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Paths Into Script Formation In The Ancient Mediterranean written by S. Ferrara 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.
Reading Writing And Bookish Circles In The Ancient Mediterranean
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Author : Lindsey A. Askin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Reading Writing And Bookish Circles In The Ancient Mediterranean written by Lindsey A. Askin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Education and state categories.
"By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean. Contributors intentionally place Jewish, Christian, Roman, Greek, and other reading circles back into their encompassing historical context, avoiding subdivisions along modern subject lines, divisions still bearing the ideological marks of ecclesiastical interests. In their examination, contributors avoid dwelling upon traditional methodological debates over orality vs. literacy and social classifications of literacy, instead turning their attention to the social-historical: groups of people, circles and networks, strata and class, scribal culture, material culture, epigraphic and papyrological evidence, functions and types of literacy and the social relationships that all of these entail. Overall, the volume contributes to an emerging and important interdisciplinary collaboration between specialists in ancient literacy, encouraging future discussion between two traditionally divided fields."--
Migration Mobility And Language Contact In And Around The Ancient Mediterranean
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Author : James Clackson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-28
Migration Mobility And Language Contact In And Around The Ancient Mediterranean written by James Clackson 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 2020-05-28 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Uses epigraphic and linguistic evidence to track movements of people around the ancient Mediterranean.
Mediterranean Travels
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Author : Noreen Humble
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-02
Mediterranean Travels written by Noreen Humble and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Written by leading scholars in the field, this collection analyses the notion of travel writing as a genre, while tracing significant examples of Mediterranean travel writing that return us to Ancient Greece, to Medieval pilgrimages, to Venetians diplomatic missions, to an Egyptian's account of Paris in the nineteenth century, to French artistic journeys in North Africa and to contemporary narratives of privileged resettlement, death and dislocation."
Literacy And The State In The Ancient Mediterranean
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Author : Kathryn Lomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Literacy And The State In The Ancient Mediterranean written by Kathryn Lomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education and state categories.
The Boundless Sea
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Author : Peregrine Horden
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-30
The Boundless Sea written by Peregrine Horden and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with History categories.
This volume brings together for the first time a collection of twelve articles written both jointly and individually by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell as they have participated in the debates generated by their major work, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (2000). One theme in those debates has been how a comprehensive Mediterranean history can be written: how an approach to Mediterranean history by way of its ecologies and the communications between them can be joined up with more mainstream forms of enquiry – cultural, social, economic, and political, with their specific chronologies and turning points. The second theme raises the question of how Mediterranean history can be fitted into a larger, indeed global history. It concerns the definition of the Mediterranean in space, the way to characterise its frontiers, and the relations between the region so defined and the other large spaces, many of them oceans, to which historians have increasingly turned for novel disciplinary-cum-geographical units of study. A volume collecting the two authors’ studies on both these themes, as well as their reply to critics of The Corrupting Sea, should prove invaluable to students and scholars from a number of disciplines: ancient, medieval and early modern history, archaeology, and social anthropology. (CS1083).
Phoenicians And The Making Of The Mediterranean
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Author : Carolina López-Ruiz
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-04
Phoenicians And The Making Of The Mediterranean written by Carolina López-Ruiz 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 2022-01-04 with History categories.
“An important new book...offers a powerful call for historians of the ancient Mediterranean to consider their implicit biases in writing ancient history and it provides an example of how more inclusive histories may be written.” —Denise Demetriou, New England Classical Journal “With a light touch and a masterful command of the literature, López-Ruiz replaces old ideas with a subtle and more accurate account of the extensive cross-cultural exchange patterns and economy driven by the Phoenician trade networks that ‘re-wired’ the Mediterranean world. A must read.” —J. G. Manning, author of The Open Sea “[A] substantial and important contribution...to the ancient history of the Mediterranean. López-Ruiz’s work does justice to the Phoenicians’ role in shaping Mediterranean culture by providing rational and factual argumentation and by setting the record straight.” —Hélène Sader, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would notice a remarkable similarity in the dress, alphabet, consumer goods, and gods from Gibraltar to Tyre. This was not the Greek world—it was the Phoenician. Propelled by technological advancements of a kind unseen since the Neolithic revolution, Phoenicians knit together diverse Mediterranean societies, fostering a literate and sophisticated urban elite sharing common cultural, economic, and aesthetic modes. Following the trail of the Phoenicians from the Levant to the Atlantic coast of Iberia, Carolina López-Ruiz offers the first comprehensive study of the cultural exchange that transformed the Mediterranean in the eighth and seventh centuries BC. Greeks, Etruscans, Sardinians, Iberians, and others adopted a Levantine-inflected way of life, as they aspired to emulate Near Eastern civilizations. López-Ruiz explores these many inheritances, from sphinxes and hieratic statues to ivories, metalwork, volute capitals, inscriptions, and Ashtart iconography. Meticulously documented and boldly argued, Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean revises the Hellenocentric model of the ancient world and restores from obscurity the true role of Near Eastern societies in the history of early civilizations.
New Approaches To The Materiality Of Text In The Ancient Mediterranean
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Author : Erica Angliker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-08-07
New Approaches To The Materiality Of Text In The Ancient Mediterranean written by Erica Angliker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-07 with categories.
In recent years, the study of epigraphy and ancient writings has undergone a 'material turn', as scholars have increasingly looked beyond just the contents of written sources to also focus on their broader material and visual contexts as a way of exploring the layers of different meanings that can attach to written evidence. Taking this interdisciplinary approach as its starting point, this volume draws together contributions from specialists in different fields in order to analyze text-bearing objects and monuments from across the ancient Mediterranean world. From texts inscribed on large stone monuments and buildings, clay, or metal tablets, to writings on papyrus and parchment rolls, jewellery, vases, coins, and textiles, writing on different materials had manifold possibilities. The case studies gathered here examine novel approaches to the creation and display of inscribed objects, as well as to the ways in which such items were approached and perceived by people during a chronological period ranging from the Late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. In doing so, the volume sheds new light not only on the interplay between ancient texts, text-bearers, and viewers within their wider spatial and physical contexts, but also on the possibilities opened by exploring the material aspects of writing through interdisciplinary approaches.