Palaeography Books
Brill Aztec Religion and Art of Writing: Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies 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." - Davíd Carrasco, Harvard UniversityTrade ReviewIsabel Laack’s Aztec Religion and Art of Writing makes an important departure from the way aesthetics, semiotics, and studies of religion have been applied to our understanding of Aztec civilization and culture. Furthermore, by relocating the epicenter of scholarly “gaze,” to religion and regions beyond Christianity and Anglo-American or European contexts, Laack offers an innovative postcolonial aesthetic approach to religion. Laack’s bold methodological departure from her own graduate training provides encouragement for scholars of all stages to chart similar pathways for themselves. - Jury of the AAR 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Introducing the Subject 2 Indicating Sociopolitical Relevance 3 Realizing the Aesthetics of Religion 4 Outlining the Chapters 1 Methodology 1 Doing Research in a Postcolonial World 2 Writing History 3 Clarifying Perspectives and Objectives 4 Summary 2 Living in Cultural Diversity 1 Drawing on History 2 Living in the Central Highlands 3 Living in Religious Diversity 4 Conclusion: Diversity within the Nahua Tradition 3 Living in Relation: Being Human in Tenochtitlan 1 How the World Came to Be 2 How the Human World Came to Be 3 How the Cosmic Dynamics Unfold 4 Living in Cosmic Relations 5 Living in Social Relations 6 Living Properly—Living in Balance 4 A World in Motion: Nahua Ontology 1 Aztec Notions of “Divinity” 2 The Nature of Teotl 3 Teotl’s Realization: Nahualli and the Layers of Reality 4 A World in Motion: The Fifth Era 5 The Problem of Ephemerality: What Is Really Real? 5 Understanding a World in Motion: Nahua Epistemology 1 Epistemology 2 Knowledge Experts: Wise (Wo)Men and Scribes 2 People with Special Insights 3 The Inspiration of Knowledge and Its Expression 6 Interacting with a World in Motion: Nahua Pragmatism and Aesthetics 1 Human Agency: Seeking Balance 2 Human Duties 3 Interacting with Rituals 4 Involving the Senses and Aesthetic Media 5 The Concept of the Teixiptla 7 Expressing Reality in Language: Nahua Linguistic Theory 1 Nahua Oral Tradition 2 Reconstructing Nahua Songs 3 Thinking in Nahuatl 4 Nahua Imagery 5 The Relationship between the Spoken Sign and Reality in Nahuatl 6 Nahua Imagery and the Problem of Rationality 8 Materializing Reality in Writing: Nahua Pictography 1 The History of Writing Systems in Mesoamerica 2 The Writing System of the Nahuas 3 Social Text Practice 4 Books and Authors 5 Nahua Culture between Orality and Literacy 9 Understanding Pictography: Interpreting Nahua Semiotics 1 The History of Evaluating Aztec Writing 2 Different Kinds of Meaning and Knowledge 3 Seeing Reality: Nahua Semiotic Theory 4 Interpreting Nahua Pictography 10 Interpretative Results: Nahua Religion, Scripture, and Sense of Reality 1 From Religion to Being-in-the-World 2 From Scripture to Semiotics 3 Interrelationships: Semiotic Theory and Embodied Meaning Conclusion References Index Plates
£69.60
Brill Japanese Morphography: Deconstructing hentai kanbun
Book SynopsisHow is it possible to write down the Japanese language exclusively in Chinese characters? And how are we then able to determine the language behind the veil of the Chinese script as Japanese? The history of writing in Japan presents us with a fascinating variety of writing styles ranging from phonography to morphography and all shades in between. In Japanese Morphography: Deconstructing hentai kanbun, Gordian Schreiber shows that texts traditionally labelled as “hentai kanbun” or “variant Chinese” are, in fact, morphographically written Japanese texts instead and not just the result of an underdeveloped skill in Chinese. The study fosters our understanding of writing system typology beyond phonographic writing.
£95.20
Brill The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān: A Description and Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Variation
Book SynopsisThis work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Maps and Tables Sigla and Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Outline of the Present Work 2 The Corpus 3 A Holistic Approach to the Epigraphic Object 4 Scribal School and Variation 1 The Oasis of Dadan in Space and Time 1 The Dadanite and Liḥyanite Kingdoms 2 Philological Arguments 3 Minaean Presence at Dadan 4 Paleography 5 Dadan in Other Corpora 6 Archaeological Evidence 7 Summary of the Dating Evidence 2 Script and Manners of Inscribing 1 Glyphs and Their Variant Forms 2 Script Styles 3 Dadanitic Alphabetic Text 4 Summary: Varying Styles, Varying Forms 3 Genres and Compositional Formulae 1 Superscriptio 2 Narratio 3 Invocatio 4 Graffiti 5 Summary 4 Orthography and Phonology 1 Word Dividers 2 Matres lectionis 3 Triphthongs 4 Final Short Vowels 5 Diphthongs 6 Sound Changes 5 Verbal Morphology 1 Suffix Conjugation 2 Prefix Conjugation 3 Derived Stems 4 Participles 6 Nominal and Pronominal Morphology 1 Gender 2 Number 3 Noun Formation 4 Demonstrative Pronoun 5 Relative Pronoun 6 hmḏ 7 mh 8 mn 9 Personal Pronouns 10 Prepositions 11 Numerals 12 Adverbs 13 Particles 14 Conjunctions 7 A Quantitative Approach to Variation 1 Methodology: Statistics 2 The Data and Methodology 8 Analysis 1 Text Internal Variants 2 Register Indicators 3 Important Non-significant Co-occurrences 4 Discussion 5 Summary Conclusions 1 Descriptive and Grammar Chapters 2 Chapters Analyzing Variation 3 Variation and Literacy 4 Future Directions 5 Summary Glossary Bibliography Index of Inscriptions
£119.20
Brill Zeichen zwischen Klartext und Arabeske: Konferenz des Konstanzer Graduiertenkollegs «Theorie der Literatur». Veranstaltet im Oktober 1992
Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band dokumentiert das vom Konstanzer Graduiertenkolleg Theorie der Literatur im Oktober 1992 an der Universität Konstanz veranstaltete Symposium Zeichen zwischen Klartext und Arabeske, an dem SpezialistInnen aus verschiedenen kulturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen teilnahmen. Klartext und Arabeske stecken das Feld ab für die zu problematisierenden Zeichenbegriffe. Auf welch unterschiedliche Weisen unvereinbare Aufzeichnungsmodelle gegeneinander-geführt werden und miteinander konkurrieren, wird anhand verschiedener Objektbereiche und Methoden dargestellt: Kombinatorische Textgenerierung, Kryptographie, Kalligraphie, Bild-Schrift-Relationen, Arabeskisierung des Textes im strukturellen und semantischen Bereich, Rematerialisierung und Energetisierung von Zeichen. Zwei prinzipiell zu unterscheidende Ausrichtungen bestimmen die Konzeption des Bandes. Die ersten drei Teile, Kombinatorik - Alphabet, Schrift - Bild und Kryptographie - Latenz sind unter dem Aspekt der Doppeltextualität und Mehrfachkodierung zum ersten Teil des Bandes zusammenzufassen. In den Teilen 4 und 5, Ornament - Zeichen und Zeichen-Körper - Energetik, dagegen steht in der Zusammenführung unterschiedlicher Codes darüberhinaus der Begriff des Zeichens generell auf dem Spiel. Im Namen des Ornamentbegriffs Arabeske werden Remotivierungs- und Renaturalisierungsstrategien im Hinblick auf eine arabeske Semantik verfolgt, die Semiosen aller Art immer wieder infrage stellt und energetisch 'überschießt'. Diese globale Einteilung in zwei Blöcke versteht sich als systematische Gewichtung, wobei die gegenseitige Abhängigkeit der Teile untereinander immer mitreflektiert wird.
£102.60
British Library Publishing Writing
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated book, published to coincide with an interactive landmark British Library exhibition, celebrates the act of writing from across the globe and explores its complex and diverse history.
£32.00
Edinburgh University Press Dialect Writing and the North of England
Book SynopsisInvestigates how dialect variation in the North of England is represented in writing.
£94.50
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Signature
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Why do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often require a witnessas if the scrawl itself is not enough. What other kinds of beliefs and longings justify our signing practices? Signature addresses these questions as it roams from a roundtable on the Greek island of Syros, to a scene of handwriting analysis conducted in an English pub, from a wedding in Moscow, where guests sign the bride's body, to a San Franciscan tattoo parlor interested in arcane forms. The signature's history encompasses ancient handprints on cave walls, autograph hunters, the branding of slaves, metaphysical poetry, medical malpractice, hip-hop lyrics, legal challenges to electronic signatures, ice cores harvested from Greenland, and tales of forgery and autopens. Part cultural chronicle, part travelogue, Signature pursues the identifying marks made by peTrade ReviewThis is a true ‘essay film’ of a book, with multiple associative bridges flying out from its topic, into the air of pure insight. I’m thrilled to add my name to its covers. * Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude *Table of Contents1. The Dotted Line 2. S for Signature a. Real Fake b. On the Shores of Syros 3. Autograph Collecting a. “To Adam, from Big Daddy” b. A Victorian State of Mind c. Reading Character d. Criminal Signatures e. Autograph Fever 4. The Origins of Signature a. To Astuvansalmi b. There is Nothing Funny about Elk c. The Self, Extended d. Cave Signatures e. Seals and Signets 5. Signing the Body a. I Am You b. Erotic Inscription c. Autographic Skin 6 Digital Signatures, Signaling Digits a. Signing Machines i. Typewriter ii. Film iii. Gramophone b. Fingerprinting c. Electronic Signatures 7 Paw Prints & Ice Cores a. Doctrine of Signatures b. Animal Tracks c. Epigenetic Signatures d. Ice Cores Epilogue Acknowledgments
£9.49
Equinox Publishing Ltd The Disappearance of Writing Systems:
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or replacement have been little studied. Because writing is so important in many cultures and civilizations, its disappearance - followed by a period without it or by replacement by a different writing system - is of almost equal significance to invention as a mark of radical change. Probably more writing systems have disappeared than survived in the last five thousand years. Case studies from the Old and New Worlds are presented, ranging over periods from the first millennium BC to the present. In order to address many types of transmission, the broadest possible definition of 'writing' is used, notably including Mexican pictography and the Andean khipu system.One chapter discusses the larger proportion of known human societies which have not possessed complex material codes like writing, offering an alternative perspective on the long-term transmission of socially salient subjects. A concluding essay draws out common themes and offers an initial synthesis of results. This volume offers a new perspective on approaches to writing that will be significant for the understanding of writing systems and their social functions, literacy, memory, and high-cultural communication systems in general.Table of Contents1. John Bennet, Now You See It; Now You Don't! The Disappearance of the Linear A Script on Crete2. J. David Hawkins, The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Hieroglyphic Luwian3. Jeremy Black , The Obsolescence and Demise of Cuneiform Writing in Elam 4. David Brown, Increasingly Redundant: The Growing Obsolescence of the Cuneiform Script in Babylonia from 539 BC Postscript: Jerrold Cooper, Redundancy Reconsidered: Reflections on David Brown's Thesis5. Kathryn Lomas, Script Obsolescence in Ancient Italy: From Pre-Roman to Roman Writing6. Richard Salomon, Whatever Happened to Kharoṣṭhi? The Fate of a Forgotten Indic Script7. Martin Andreas Stadler, On the Demise of Egyptian Writing: Working with a Problematic Source Basis8. Claude Rilly, The Last Traces of Meroitic? A Tentative Scenario for the Disappearance of the Meroitic Script9. M. C. A. Macdonald, The Phoenix of Phoinikcia: Alphabetic Reincarnation in Arabia10. Stephen D. Houston, The Small Deaths of Maya Writing11. Elizabeth Hill Boone, The Death of Mexican Pictography12. Frank Salomon, Late Khipu Use13. Giovanni Stary, Disappearance of Writing Systems: The Manchu Case14. John Monaghan, Revelatory Scripts, 'the Unlettered Genius', and the Appearance and Disappearance of Writing 15. Chris Gosden, History without Text16. John Baines, Writing and its Multiple Disappearances
£81.00
Equinox Publishing Ltd The Disappearance of Writing Systems:
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or replacement have been little studied. Because writing is so important in many cultures and civilizations, its disappearance - followed by a period without it or by replacement by a different writing system - is of almost equal significance to invention as a mark of radical change. Probably more writing systems have disappeared than survived in the last five thousand years. Case studies from the Old and New Worlds are presented, ranging over periods from the first millennium BC to the present. In order to address many types of transmission, the broadest possible definition of 'writing' is used, notably including Mexican pictography and the Andean khipu system. One chapter discusses the larger proportion of known human societies which have not possessed complex material codes like writing, offering an alternative perspective on the long-term transmission of socially salient subjects. There is a concluding essay that draws out common themes and offers an initial synthesis of results. The volume offers a new perspective on approaches to writing that will be significant for the understanding of writing systems and their social functions, literacy, memory, and high-cultural communication systems in general.Table of Contents1. John Bennet, Now You See It; Now You Don't! The Disappearance of the Linear A Script on Crete 2. J. David Hawkins, The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Hieroglyphic Luwian 3. Jeremy Black A , The Obsolescence and Demise of Cuneiform Writing in Elam 4. David Brown, Increasingly Redundant: The Growing Obsolescence of the Cuneiform Script in Babylonia from 539 BC Postscript: Jerrold Cooper, Redundancy Reconsidered: Reflections on David Brown's Thesis 5. Kathryn Lomas (Institute of Classical Studies, University College London), Script Obsolescence in Ancient Italy: From Pre-Roman to Roman Writing 6. Richard Salomon (University of Washington), Whatever Happened to Kharohi? The Fate of a Forgotten Indic Script 7. Martin Andreas Stadler (University of Wurzburg), On the Demise of Egyptian Writing: Working with a Problematic Source Basis 8. Claude Rilly (CNRS, France), The Last Traces of Meroitic? A Tentative Scenario for the Disappearance of the Meroitic Script 9. M. C. A. Macdonald (Institute of Oriental Studies, Oxford), The Phoenix of Phoinikcia: Alphabetic Reincarnation in Arabia 10. Stephen D. Houston, The Small Deaths of Maya Writing 11. Elizabeth Hill Boone (Tulane University), The Death of Mexican Pictography 12. Frank Salomon (University of Wisconsin), Late Khipu Use 13. Giovanni Stary, Disappearance of Writing Systems: The Manchu Case 14. John Monaghan (University of Illinois), Revelatory Scripts, 'the Unlettered Genius', and the Appearance and Disappearance of Writing 15. Chris Gosden (Institute of Archaeology, Oxford), History without Text 16. John Baines, Writing and its Multiple Disappearances.
£23.75
Stanford University Press Writing the Dead Death and Writing Strategies in
Book SynopsisWritten by one of the world's leading paleographers, this book poses two fundamental questions: When did human beings beginand why have they continuedto decide that a certain number of their dead had a right to a written death? What differences have existed in the practice of writing death from age to age and culture to culture? Drawing principally on testimonials intended for public display, such as monuments, tombstones, and grave markings, as well as on scrolls, books, manuscripts, newspapers, and posters, the author reconstructs the ways Western cultures have used writing to commemorate the dead, from the tombs of ancient Egypt to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.The author argues that the relation between funereal remains and inscription is a profoundly political one. The recurring questionWho merits a written death?demands a multifaceted reply, one that intersects such modes of human cultural history as the relation between the living and the dead, the control ofTable of Contents1. The tomb and its signs 2. From the sign to the text 3. The order of the text 4. The order of memory 5. The names and the crosses 6. Writing the great 7. The books and the stones 8. Monument and document 9. The body, knowledge, and money 10. Florence and Rome 11. From the stone to the page 12. The theaters of pain 13. Anglo-Americana 14. Ordering the corpses, ordering the writing 15. The middle class and its writing Notes Index of names.
£48.60
University of Hawai'i Press A History of Writing in Japan
Book SynopsisA survey of the development of writing systems in Japan, from the time of the earliest written records to the post-war period. It provides basic information on Japanese palaeography, references to the secondary literature, and reviews of central issues and events.
£21.56
Liverpool University Press Working with AngloSaxon Manuscripts
Book SynopsisBringing together advice and information from a group of eminent scholars, this title aims to develop in the reader an informed and realistic approach to the mechanisms for accessing and handling manuscripts in what may be limited time. It is suitable for students and fledgling researchers in Anglo-Saxon history and literature.Trade ReviewA clear, reliable, practical and beautifully illustrated introduction to the subject. The book envisions an audience that ranges from advanced undergraduates all the way to established scholars and even graphic artists, and while the undergraduates have the most to gain from the book, there is something here that everyone can learn from. A common aim of all these chapters is to survey what for many will be recognisable territory, but every chapter embodies original research, and it is inescapably clear that the contributors to this volume have spent a lot of time with manuscripts. The book as a whole contains 115 well-chosen illustrations, many in colour, including a generous number of full-page reproductions from a wide range of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. The quality of discussion and analysis in every single chapter is uniformly quite high, but it’s the illustrations that will ensure this book’s success as a teaching tool. This is a brilliantly conceived book, and just as brilliantly executed, and it should be required reading for all students of Anglo-Saxon England. The four pages of ‘Further reading’ at the end of the volume are a useful next step for students who have no prior experience with manuscript study. This is a valuable and well-produced book, and I plan to use it the next time I teach a seminar on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Thomas N. Hall, Review of English Studies 61.252At a time when the history of the book is flourishing as an academic subject, this collection of introductory papers should find a ready market. The book is generously designed, its pages handsomely laid out, with good use made of wide margins. Each of the eight main chapters has its own introductory page and is equipped with apposite and well-explained illustrations, many in color, and minimalist and non intimidating footnotes. Gale Owen-Crocker is to be congratulated for putting together an interdisciplinary overview that should appeal to teachers and their students in medieval studies more generally.Speculum, Vol. 86, No. 1Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker, provides a set of beautifully illustrated discussions of key topics which will be of immense use to those starting out in the field.Years Work in English StudiesOffers students, teachers, and scholars a valuable research tool. L. Chardonnens, English Studies, Volume 93, No 4Table of Contents 1. Introduction (Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester, UK and Director of the AHRC-funded project 'The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain c. 700-1450' and Maria Carmela Cesario, Lecturer in Medieval English Language and Literature at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, UK); 2. The construction and writing of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts (Alexander Rumble, Reader in Palaeography and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University of Manchester, UK) 3. Manuscript sources of Old English prose (Donald Scragg, Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon Studies at the University of Manchester, UK 4. Manuscript sources of Old English poetry (Elaine Treharne, Professor of Medieval Literature at Florida State University, USA and Co-Director of the AHRC-funded project 'The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220') 5. A survey of Latin manuscripts (Gernot Wieland, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada) 6. Reading between (and beyond) the lines: glosses and notes in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts (Timothy Graham, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of New Mexico, USA) 7. Manuscript art (Catherine Karkov, Professor of Art History at the University of Leeds, UK) 8. From manuscript to computer (Stuart Lee, Acting Director of University Computing Services and a teaching member of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford, UK and Daniel O'Donnell, Associate Professor of English, Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative and Director of the Digital Medievalist Project, University of Lethbridge, Canada) Glossary Index of Manuscripts Index
£30.80
Liverpool University Press Introducing English Medieval Book History
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to address medieval book history for graduate students of medieval English literature. Ralph Hanna presents a history of the English medieval book through a series of examples centred on carefully chosen texts and their physical and cultural surrounds.Trade ReviewReviews'Scholarship in this work is superb. Quotations, translations, bibliography are spot on. Professor Hanna’s lifetime of intelligent work in the field glows at all points of discussion.' MS referee'This is a first-rate book from a scholar at the forefront of palaeographical and bibliographical study; it will have a wide readership. It will be an excellent partner for the recent Owen-Crocker volume 'Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.' Series Editors'This handsome volume teaches far more than the facts of book history, manuscript culture, and Middle English Literature. It is a model of how to sleuth, how to think critically, how to enter into a detective mindset 'in which every implicit assumption of knowledge [is] teased out, queried and productively qualified.'Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und LiteraturenTable of Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Acknowledgements On the reproductions 1. Texts and their books: the case of 'Beowulf' 2. Medieval authors and texts: the Middle English 'Benjamin' Appendix: The manuscripts of 'Benjamin' 3. The history of a book: Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C.285 4. Shared exemplars: British Library, MS Cotton Galba E.ix and its relations 5. Scribal oeuvres: ‘Chaucer’s Scribe’ and his 'Canterbury Tales' 6. A book contract and its ‘set text’: John Forbor’s Psalter Appendix: The Slaithwaite indenture: a transcription, translation and notes 7. Provenances: some medieval libraries Appendix: Selections from medieval booklists John Erghome (OESA of York) Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester The lord Welles Index of manuscripts cited Index of scholars cited
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Introducing English Medieval Book History:
Book SynopsisThis book offers an introduction to medieval English book-history through a sequence of exemplary analyses of commonplace book-historical problems. Rather than focus on bibliographical particulars, the volume considers a variety of ways in which scholars use manuscripts to discuss book culture, and it provides a wide-ranging introductory bibliography to aid in the study. All the essays try to suggest how the study of surviving medieval books might be useful in considering medieval literary culture more generally. Subjects covered include authorship, genre, discontinuous production, scribal individuality and community, the history of libraries and the history of book provenance.Trade ReviewReviews'Scholarship in this work is superb. Quotations, translations, bibliography are spot on. Professor Hanna’s lifetime of intelligent work in the field glows at all points of discussion.' MS referee'This is a first-rate book from a scholar at the forefront of palaeographical and bibliographical study; it will have a wide readership. It will be an excellent partner for the recent Owen-Crocker volume 'Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.' Series Editors'This handsome volume teaches far more than the facts of book history, manuscript culture, and Middle English Literature. It is a model of how to sleuth, how to think critically, how to enter into a detective mindset 'in which every implicit assumption of knowledge [is] teased out, queried and productively qualified.'Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und LiteraturenTable of Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Acknowledgements On the reproductions 1. Texts and their books: the case of 'Beowulf' 2. Medieval authors and texts: the Middle English 'Benjamin' Appendix: The manuscripts of 'Benjamin' 3. The history of a book: Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C.285 4. Shared exemplars: British Library, MS Cotton Galba E.ix and its relations 5. Scribal oeuvres: ‘Chaucer’s Scribe’ and his 'Canterbury Tales' 6. A book contract and its ‘set text’: John Forbor’s Psalter Appendix: The Slaithwaite indenture: a transcription, translation and notes 7. Provenances: some medieval libraries Appendix: Selections from medieval booklists John Erghome (OESA of York) Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester The lord Welles Index of manuscripts cited Index of scholars cited
£34.99
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Dorset Rotulus: Contextualizing and
Book SynopsisThe exciting discovery of new music from the Middle Ages sheds new light on knowledge of the medieval motet. From its origins in the thirteenth century, the Latin-texted motet in England and France became the most significant and diverse polyphonic genre of the fourteenth, a body of music important both for its texts and its variety of musical structures. However, although the motet in England plays a vital role in the music-historical narrative of the first decades of the 1300s, it has too often been overlooked in modern scholarship, due largely to its preservation in numerous but almost entirely fragmentary sources. In 2017, substantial new fragments of medieval polyphony came to light. They originated at the Benedictine monastery of Abbotsbury, a major institution located high above Chesil Beach on Dorset's Jurassic Coast. The two leaves once headed an imposing musical scroll, and preserve significant portions of four large-scale Latin-texted motets from early fourteenth-century England. Discovery of this source brings to the fore a massive seven-section motet on St Margaret, hitherto known only through highly fragmentary snippets of two of its four voices, as well as a unicum with extraordinary features addressed to the Virgin Mary and St Nicholas. When coupled with the remaining motets, one on the Ascension and the other on the Virgin Mary, the Dorset motets expand our understanding of how the English developed their own approaches to the genre, forging styles and techniques quite independently of the continental norms against which earlier scholarship has judged (and sometimes demeaned) them. This book introduces the manuscript and its provenance in Abbotsbury, relates it to other scrolls of late medieval music, contextualizes its motets within the larger corpus of contemporary Latin-texted motets, and analyses and reconstructs each of the motets, providing complete performable transcriptions of three of these compositions as well as three of its large-scale comparands. Spurred by the Dorset discovery, this monograph, the first in thirty-five years devoted to the medieval motet in England, offers a new evaluation of the richness of the English repertory in its own terms.Trade ReviewThe Dorset Rotulus is engagingly written, carefully argued, and lavishly illustrated. It will be a stimulating read for anyone interested in early musical culture and offers particular models for further analysis and reconstruction. * SPECULUM *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Source and Its Contents 2. Contexts and Designs 3. Voice-Exchange Motets and Ascendenti sonet geminacio/ Viri Galilei 4. Margareta pascens oves and Its Large-Scale Comparands 5. Rota versatilis: Towards a Reconstruction 6. The Curious Case of Regina preminencie/ Gemma nitens/ ...mater es intacta 7. Introducing Naufragantes visita/ Navigatrix inclita/ T. Aptatur/ ...velox perpetrat 8. The Musical Rotulus: Artifact, Image, and Attributes 9. Epilogue: Conclusions and Speculation Appendix. Transcriptions, Texts, and Translations of the Four Dorset Motets Ascendenti sonet geminacio/ Viri Galilei Margareta pascens oves Regina preminencie/ Gemma nitens/ ...mater es intacta Naufragantes visita/ Navigatrix inclita/ T. Aptatur/ ...velox perpetrat Bibliography Index
£96.13
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contexts: The
Book SynopsisA fresh interpretation of an enigmatic illumination and its contexts. The Ashburnham Pentateuch is an early medieval manuscript of uncertain provenance, which has puzzled and intrigued scholars since the nineteenth century. Its first image, which depicts the Genesis creation narrative, is itself a site of mystery; originally, it presented the Trinity as three men in various vignettes, but in the early ninth century, by which time the manuscript had come to the monastery at Tours, most of the figures were obscured by paint, leaving behind a single creator. In this sense, the manuscript serves as a kind of hinge between the late antique and early medieval periods. Why was the Ashburnham Pentateuch's anthropomorphic image of the Trinity acceptable in the sixth century, but not in the ninth? This study examines the theological, political, and iconographic contexts of the production and later modification of the Ashburnham Pentateuch's creation image. The discussion focuses on materiality, the oft-contested relationship between image and word, and iconoclastic acts as "embodied responses". Ultimately, this book argues that the Carolingian-era reception and modification of the creation image is consistent with contemporaneous iconography, a concern for maintaining the absolute unity of the Trinity, as well as Carolingian image theory following the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy. Tracing the changes in Trinitarian theology and theories of the image offers us a better understanding of the mutual influences between art, theology, and politics during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Losing and Finding the Ashburnham Pentateuch 1. Early Trinitarian Texts and Debates 2. The Trinity in Early Christian Images 3. Carolingian Conceptions of the Trinity 4. Carolingian Image Theory 5. The Carolingian Reception of the Ashburnham Pentateuch Conclusion: Possible Motivations for the Ashburnham Pentateuch Erasures[TS1] Coda: The Afterlife [TS2] of the Ashburnham Pentateuch
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Liverpool University Press Looking at Medieval Books: Learning to See
Book SynopsisUnlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances of planning, execution, and history. This is a fundamental difficulty for study, particularly for those beginning the investigation of texts in manuscript. There are two conventional ways of approaching this difficulty: explaining the series of processes by which a manuscript book is constructed and explaining how to construct a professional description of a manuscript book. Neither addresses a problem fundamental for beginners: what happens when a librarian presents you with a manuscript? How should you proceed? Fundamentally, this is a problem of visual examination, and taking its procedure from the grand M. R. James and M. B. Parkes, this book attempts to stimulate the visual and experiential. It attempts, in a heavily exemplified account, to explain what might be there in a manuscript to perceive and what it might mean. The argument follows a process of examination that begins with the physical bulk of what's in front of you (and its cover, or binding) and ends with traces of the book's history.Table of ContentsPrefaceWhat's in front of you? What's its shape? How big is it? The closed book: what do you see first?Opening the book: what's it made of? Membrane PaperWhere's the first leaf? What does the first leaf look like? How come it looks so neat? How does the scribe write? What texts does it contain? How's it been put together? Are there other discontinuities? Where's it been all this time? Looking at Cambridge, Queens' College, MS 10
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York Medieval Press Constructing History across the Norman Conquest:
Book SynopsisAn investigation into the hugely significant works produced by the Worcester foundation at a period of turmoil and change. From the mid-eleventh to the mid-twelfth century Worcester was a monastic community of unparalleled importance. Not only was it home to many of the most famous bishops and monks of the period, including Bishop Wulfstan II: it was also a centre of notable and ambitious scholarly production. Under Wulfstan's guidance, a number of Worcester brethren undertook historical research that resulted in the writing of such renowned texts as Hemming's Cartulary and the Worcester Chronica Chronicarum. Significantly, these historical endeavours spanned the political chasm of the Norman Conquest. The essays collected here aim to shed new light on different aspects of the Worcester "historical workshop", whose literary ouput was, in several respects, pioneering in contemporary European scholarship. Several chapters address the different ways in which the monks organised and updated their archives of documents, both via their sequence of cartularies, with a special focus on the narrative parts of Hemming's Cartulary, and via an interesting (and previously unedited) prose account of the foundation of the see. Others focus on the famous Worcester Chronica Chronicarum, attributed both to Florence and to John, investigating the major model for its composition and structure (the work of Marianus Scotus), the stages in which it was completed, and its connections with Welsh chronicles, as well as the related and fascinating abbreviated version, written mostly in the hand of John himself, and known as the Chronicula. The volume thus elucidates how the Worcester monks navigated the period across the Conquest through the composition of different genres of texts, and how these texts shaped their own institutional memory.Trade ReviewThe collection is a model of careful scholarship that is not afraid to be methodologically innovative... The essays could almost have been written by a single author. The collection contains only the bare minimum of repetition required to allow each essay to stand on its own. The editors have created a model that group studies of other centers of historical production would do well to follow. * SPECULUM *Table of Contents1 Framing the Past: Charters and Chronicles at Worcester, c.1050-c.1150 - Francesca Tinti and D. A. Woodman 2 Identities in Community: Literary Culture and Memory at Worcester - Thomas O'Donnell 3 Preserving Records and Writing History in Worcester's Conquest-Era Archives - Jonathan Herold 4 Constructing Narrative in the Closing Folios of Hemming's Cartulary - Francesca Tinti 5 Worcester's Own History: an Account of the Foundation of the See and a Summary of Benefactions, AD 680-1093 - Susan Kelly 6 Worcester and the English Reception of Marianus Scotus C. Philipp E. Nothaft 7 History Books at Worcester, c.1050-1150, and the Making of the Worcester Chronicle - Laura Cleaver 8 Poetry in the Worcester Chronicula (TCD MS 503) - D. A. Woodman 9 Networks of Chronicle Writing in Western Britain: the Case of Worcester and Wales - Georgia Henley
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York Medieval Press Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England:
Book SynopsisA fresh appraisal of late medieval manuscript culture in England, examining the ways in which people sustained older books, exploring the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared. During the "long fifteenth century" (here, 1375-1530), the demand for books in England flourished. The fast-developing book trade produced them in great quantity. Fragments of manuscripts were often repurposed, as flyleaves and other components such as palimpsests; and alongside the creation of new books, medieval manuscripts were also repaired, recycled and re-used. This monograph examines the ways in which people sustained older books, exploring the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared. Drawing on the codicological evidence gathered from an extensive survey of extant manuscript collections, in conjunction with historical accounts, recipes and literary texts, it presents detailed case studies exploring parchment production and recycling, the re-use of margins, and second-hand exchanges of books. Its engagement with the evidence in - and inscribed on - surviving books enables a fresh appraisal of late medieval manuscript culture in England, looking at how people went about re-using books, and arguing that over the course of this period, books were made, used and re-used in a myriad of sustainable ways.Trade ReviewOne is not likely to see parchment at the various stages of its life cycle in quite the same way after reading it... should be standard reading for students who wish to acquaint themselves with manuscript production and use. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *Re-using Manuscripts is an invitation to set aside the familiar restrictions of the reading room and to ask new questions...Fascinating study. * TLS *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Transcription Conventions Introduction 1. Making Parchment for Books 2. Re-using Parchment in Books 3. Making Marks on Books 4. Second-hand Books Conclusions Bibliography Index
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York Medieval Press Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World:
Book SynopsisWho wrote about the past in the Middle Ages, who read about it, and how were these works disseminated and used? History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled by the kings of England, particularly from the 12th century, has long attracted the attention of historians and literary scholars. This collection of essays returns to the processes involved in writing history, and in particular to the medieval manuscript sources in which the works of such historians survive. It explores the motivations of those writing about the past in the Middle Ages (such as Orderic Vitalis, John of Worcester, Symeon of Durham, William of Malmesbury, Gerald of Wales, Roger of Howden, and Matthew Paris), and the evidence provided by manuscripts for the circumstances in which copies were made.Trade ReviewThis volume thus offers a rich variety of insights into the diversity and complexity of Anglo-Norman historical writing. . . . [It] achieves its goal of using manuscripts to add nuance to our understanding of Anglo-Norman historical writing. * MANUSCRIPT STUDIES *The quality of the essays, and the originality of many of their findings, should, if nothing else, serve to spur other researchers into action. * FRANCIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making and Reading History Books in the Anglo-Norman World Did the Purpose of History Change in England in the Twelfth Century? - Michael Staunton England's Place within Salvation History: An Extended Version of Peter of Poitiers' Compendium Historiae in London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII - Andrea Worm Computus and Chronology in Anglo-Norman England - Anne Lawrence-Mathers A Saint Petersburg Manuscript of Excerptio Roberti Herefordensis de Chronica Mariani Scotti - Gleb Schmidt Autograph History Books in the Twelfth Century - Laura Cleaver Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum in Anglo-Norman England - Laura Pani Durham Cathedral Priory and its Library of History, c. 1090 - c. 1150 - Charles C. Rozier King John's Books and the Interdict in England and Wales - Stephen D. Church Artistic Patronage and the Early Anglo-Norman Abbots of St Albans - Kathryn Gerry Matthew Paris, Cecilia de Sanford and the Early Readership of the Vie de Seint Auban - Laura Slater New Readers, Old History: Gerald of Wales and the Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland - Caoimhe Whelan Bibliography
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De Gruyter Von der Antike bis zum Buchdruck
Book SynopsisGegenstand dieses Buches ist das Schreiben in seinem geschichtlichen Verlauf. Es beschreibt die Geschichte des Schreibens als Geschichte einer Tätigkeit. Der erste Teil der Darstellung setzt da ein, wo die Geschichte des Schreibens in Europa ihren Anfang genommen hat: in der griechischen Antike um die Mitte des 8. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., als man zum ersten Mal konsequent alphabetisch schrieb. Sie endet mit den Auswirkungen und Folgen des Buchdrucks auf die Schreibpraxis in der Zeit zwischen dem Ende des 15. und dem Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts. Im Mittelpunkt der faszinierenden Darstellung steht genau das, was in anderen Dokumentationen ausgespart wird: nicht die äußeren Bedingungen, nicht die Texte, weder ihr Inhalt noch die Form, und auch nicht die Menschen, die geschrieben haben, sondern vornehmlich das, was sie getan haben, wenn sie schrieben, ihre Tätigkeit. Diese Tätigkeit umfasst verschiedene Konzeptionen und Begriffe des Schreibens, die spezifische Organisation der Schreibhandlung und die jeweilige historische Praxis des Schreibens. Dieses Buch entwirft in klarer Sprache und Struktur erstmals eine umfassende 'innere' Geschichte des Schreibens als prägende Kulturtechnik des Menschen. Dersich in Vorbereitung befindendezweite Band widmet sich der Geschichte des Schreibens von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Pluspunkte: Darstellung der Geschichte des Schreibens von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart Gut lesbare Einführung in die Funktionen, Methoden und Bildungsvoraussetzungen des Schreibens in den verschiedenen Epochen Historische Darstellung der zentralen Kulturtechnik des Menschen
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Aarhus University Press Album of Armenian Paleography
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The Chinese University Press The Mingjia and Related Texts – Essentials in the
Book SynopsisThe Mingjia (School of Names) is a notional grouping of philosophers first recorded as such in the Shiji. Their identifying feature was a concern with linguistic issues particularly involving the correct use of names. The origin of this concern is taken to be Lunyu XIII.3. The group, as listed in the Han Shu, comprised seven men living between the sixth and third centuries BC. Only four of these men have extant writings attributed to them (Deng Xi, Yin Wen, Hui Shi and Gongsun Long) and in three of these there are issues of authenticity. Nevertheless, it is an important group for an understanding of the development of pre-Qin philosophy as the men themselves and the concepts they explored feature prominently in the writings of the other schools. The present work contains four sections: (i) the extant writings of the four men; (ii) all significant references to them in other works up to the fourth century AD; (iii) other significant writing on the topics up to that time; and (iv) four appendices on specific issues concerning the school.
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The Chinese University Press The Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha –
Book SynopsisThe Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan), are the only pre-Imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to-date. Dating to the turn from the 4th to the 3rd centuries BC (Late Warring States period), they contain several short texts concerning basic cosmological concepts, arranged in a diagrammatic arrangement and surrounded by pictorial illustrations. As such, they constitute a unique source of information complementing and going beyond what is known from transmitted texts.This is the first in a two-volume monograph on the Zidanku manuscripts, reflecting almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University. While the philological study and translation of the manuscript texts is the subject of Volume Two, this first volume presents the archaeological context and history of transmission of the physical manuscripts. It records how they were taken from their original place of interment in the 1940s and taken to the United States in 1946; documents the early stages in the research on the finds from the Zidanku tomb and its re-excavation in the 1970s; and accounts for where the manuscripts were kept before becoming the property, respectively, of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York (Manuscript 1), and the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution (Manuscripts 2 and 3). Superseding previous efforts, this is the definitive account that will sets the record straight and establishes a new basis for future research on these uniquely important artifacts.
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Oxford University Press LANG SCRIP CHIN TEXTS EAST ASIA C
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Scripting Japan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Signs of Writing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Their Hands Before Our Eyes A Closer Look at Scribes The Lyell Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford 1999
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Cambridge University Press Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature
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Cambridge University Press Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne 1 Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology Series Number 1
Book SynopsisBernhard Bischoff (1906â1991) was one of the most renowned scholars of medieval palaeography of the twentieth century. His most outstanding contribution to learning was in the field of Carolingian studies, where his work is based on the catalogue of all extant ninth-century manuscripts and fragments. In this book, Michael Gorman has selected and translated seven of his classic essays on aspects of eighth- and ninth-century culture. They include an investigation of the manuscript evidence and the role of books in the transmission of culture from the sixth to the ninth century, and studies of the court libraries of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious. Bischoff also explores centres of learning outside the court in terms of the writing centres and the libraries associated with major monastic and cathedral schools respectively. This rich collection provides a full, coherent study of Carolingian culture from a number of different yet interdependent aspects, providing insights for scholars and sTrade Review"Both selection and translation are excellent....A volume as important as it is beautiful, Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne is essential to scholars and students of the early Middle Ages in history, the fine arts, sociology, and culture who may not have access to the original German publications." Uta-Renate Blumenthal, History of Education QuarterlyTable of ContentsForeword; Preface; List of abbreviations; Map: writing centres and writing provinces in the age of Charlemagne; 1. Manuscripts in the early Middle Ages; 2. Manuscripts in the age of Charlemagne; 3. The court library of Charlemagne; 4. The court library under Louis the Pious; 5. Libraries and schools in the Carolingian revival of learning; 6. Palaeography and the transmission of classical texts in the early Middle Ages; 7. Benedictine monasteries and the survival of classical literature; Bernhard Bischoff, bibliography, 1981–1993; Index of manuscripts; Index of authorities cited; General index.
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions
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Cambridge University Press Cultural Interplay in the Eighth Century The Trier Gospels and the Makings of a Scriptorium at Echternach 3 Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Vision and Meaning in NinthCentury Byzantium Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus 6 Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press The Bobbio Missal
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Cambridge University Press Women as Scribes
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the role of female scribes at three different religious communities in Bavaria in the twelfth century. It shows how the women's work - in extending the increased intellectual activity of the scriptoria - supported the revival of the monastic reform movements of that period.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Beach has studied her women with rigour and sensitivity providing a durable account of their work, fascinating observations on their interrelations with male counterparts, and thought-provoking reflections on their place in twelfth-century spiritual culture. As an illustration of the contribution that palaeography can make to intellectual and religious as well as bibliographical history, Women as Scribes deserves a wide readership.' The LibraryTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Diemut and the nun-scribes of Wessobrunn; 3. Claustration and collaboration: the nun-scribes of Admont; 4. Unlikely allies in the scriptorium: the female scribes of Schäftlarn; 5. Conclusion; Appendix A. Codicological tables; Appendix B. Ruling patterns; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Giles of Romes De regimine principum
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Cambridge University Press Vision and Meaning in NinthCentury Byzantium Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus 6 Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature
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Cambridge University Press Women as Scribes Book Production and Monastic Reform in TwelfthCentury Bavaria 10 Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Deciphering the Indus Script
Book SynopsisOf the writing systems of the ancient world which still await deciphering, the Indus script is the most important. It developed in the Indus or Harappan Civilization, which flourished c. 2500â1900 BC in and around modern Pakistan, collapsing before the earliest historical records of South Asia were composed. Nearly 4,000 samples of the writing survive, mainly on stamp seals and amulets, but no translations. Professor Parpola is the chief editor of the Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. His ideas about the script, the linguistic affinity of the Harappan language, and the nature of the Indus religion are informed by a remarkable command of Aryan, Dravidian, and Mesopotamian sources, archaeological materials, and linguistic methodology. His fascinating study confirms that the Indus script was logo-syllabic, and that the Indus language belonged to the Dravidian family.Trade Review'This book is substantial, in every sense of the word … does make a forceful case for a partial decipherment … it will become the standard reference work and the basis for any further debate.' Stuart Blackburn, South Asia Research'… deserves much credit for having pursued this enquiry to the very limits of what is now possible.' John Chadwick, The Times Higher Education Supplement'… indispensable research tool … a book of lasting value.' Florian Coulmas, Language'The best informed, most cogently argued, and important work to date on the Indus script.' Richard Salomon, Journal of the American Oriental Society'By far the most comprehensive and well researched study of the Indus script … It will certainly remain a classic source book for many years to come.' Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, American Anthropologist'… doubtless the most important study of the Indus script …' Thomas Oberlies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'… most complete and best-informed treatment of the subject.' Michael D. Coe, AntiquityTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. The Indus Civilization and its historical context; Part II. The Indus Script: 2. Early writing systems; 3. Deciphering an unknown script; 4. Approaches to the Indus script; 5. Internal evidence for the type of script used in the Indus Valley; 6. Internal evidence on the structure of the Indus language; 7. External clues to the Indus script; Part III. The Linguistic Context: 8. In search of the Indus language; 9. Dravidian languages and the Harappan culture; Part IV. Interpretations of Indus Pictograms: 10. The 'fish' signs of the Indus script; 11. The astronomical and astrological background; 12. The trefoil motif: further evidence for astral religion; 13. Evidence for Harappan worship of the god Muruku; 14. Evidence for Harappan worship of the Goddess; 15. Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliographical notes; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century 9 Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Reading in Medieval St Gall 13 Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press Jesus and Gospel
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Cambridge University Press Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West 411533 55 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series Series Number 55
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Cambridge University Press Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence The Service Books of Santa Maria del Fiore 12 Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology Series Number 12
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