Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies
Author: Pier Giorgio Borbone
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 677
ISBN-13: 9783732317691
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Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies
Author: Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies, COMSt
Publisher: Tredition Gmbh
Published: 2015-01-21
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9783732317707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present volume is the main achievement of the Research Networking Programme 'Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies', funded by the European Science Foundation in the years 2009-2014. It is the first attempt to introduce a wide audience to the entirety of the manuscript cultures of the Mediterranean East. The chapters reflect the state of the art in such fields as codicology, palaeography, textual criticism and text editing, cataloguing, and manuscript conservation as applied to a wide array of language traditions including Arabic, Armenian, Avestan, Caucasian Albanian, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Slavonic, Syriac, and Turkish. Seventy-seven scholars from twenty-one countries joined their efforts to produce the handbook. The resulting reference work can be recommended both to scholars and students of classical and oriental studies and to all those involved in manuscript research, digital humanities, and preservation of cultural heritage. The volume includes maps, illustrations, indexes, and an extensive bibliography.
Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKArmenian Philology in the Modern Era
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 611
ISBN-13: 9004270965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilology is one of the most investigated fields of Armenian studies. At the end of the twentieth century, it was important to provide an overview of the main achievements and on the methodological approaches implemented in this field till now. This is the aim of the present publication. Part I focuses on the manuscripts, the inscriptions, and the printings. Its second section is devoted to the textual criticisms and the third section explores the interface between linguistics and philology. Case studies form the core of Part II. One chapter offers an overview on the 17th-19th centuries, and two articles are devoted to the conditions of the circulation of the literary production in the 20th century, both in Western and Eastern Armenian.
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature
Author: Stratis Papaioannou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0199351767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn twenty-five chapters by leading scholars, this volume propagates a nuanced understanding of Byzantine "literature", highlighting key problems, and presenting basic research tools for an audience of specialists and non-specialists.
Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity
Author: Ulla Tervahauta
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9004344934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen and Knowledge in Early Christianity offers a collection of essays that deal with perceptions of wisdom, femaleness, and their interconnections in a wide range of ancient sources, including papyri, Nag Hammadi documents, heresiological accounts and monastic literature.
The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies
Author: George Boys-Stones
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-08-20
Total Pages: 912
ISBN-13: 019160870X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied. It is intended to inform its readers, but also, importantly, to inspire them, and to enable them to pursue their own research by introducing the primary resources and exploring the latest agenda for their study. The emphasis is on the breadth and potential of Hellenic Studies as a flourishing and exciting intellectual arena, and also upon its relevance to the way we think about ourselves today.
Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books
Author: Pasquale Orsini
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-11-19
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 3110575442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated to offer an overview of the different graphic phenomena. Although the various chapters address the history of different types of scripts (i.e. biblical majuscule, sloping poitend majuscule, liturgical majuscule, epigraphic and monumental scripts), their juxtaposition allows us to identify common issues of the comparative method of palaeography. From an overall critical assessment of these aspects the impossibility of applying a unique historical paradigm to interpret the formal expressions and the history of the different bookhands comes up, due to the fact that each script follows different paths. Particular attention is also devoted to the use of Greek majuscules in the writing of ancient Christian books. A modern and critical awareness of palaeographic method may help to place the individual witnesses in the context of the main graphic trends, in the social and cultural environments in which they developed, and in a more accurate chronological framework.
Jewish Manuscript Cultures
Author: Irina Wandrey
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-12-18
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 311054654X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHebrew manuscripts are considered to be invaluable documents and artefacts of Jewish culture and history. Research on Hebrew manuscript culture is progressing rapidly and therefore its topics, methods and questions need to be enunciated and reflected upon. The case studies assembled in this volume explore various fields of research on Hebrew manuscripts. They show paradigmatically the current developments concerning codicology and palaeography, book forms like the scroll and codex, scribes and their writing material, patrons, collectors and censors, manuscript and book collections, illuminations and fragments, and, last but not least, new methods of material analysis applied to manuscripts. The principal focus of this volume is the material and intellectual history of Hebrew book cultures from antiquity to the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, its intention being to heighten and sharpen the reader’s understanding of Jewish social and cultural history in general.
The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts
Author: Alessandro Bausi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-12-02
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 3110646129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe universal practice of selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging and organizing texts and visual signs, either in carefully dedicated types of manuscripts or not, is common to all manuscript cultures. Determined by intellectual or practical needs, this process is never neutral in itself. The resulting proximity and juxtaposition of previously distant contents, challenge previous knowledge and trigger further developments. With a vast selection of highly representative case studies – from India, Islamic Asia and Spain to Ethiopian cultures, from Ancient Christian to Coptic, and Medieval European domains – this volume deals with manuscripts planned or growing and resulting in time to comprise ‘more than one’. Whatever their contents – the natural world and related recipes, astronomical tables or personal notes, documentary, religious and even highly revered holy texts – codicological and textual features of these manuscripts reveal how similar needs received different answers in varying contexts and times.
