Titlebook: Approaches to the History of Written Culture; A World Inscribed Martyn Lyons,Rita Marquilhas Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and Th

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Martyn Lyons,Rita MarquilhasFeatures contributions from leading historians of scribal culture across the world.Ranges from the inscribed images of ‘pre-literate’ societies, to the public inscriptions and the democratization of w

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54136-5Book history; Culture; Writing; Scribal; Oral

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,A World Inscribed – Introduction,e of writing in any given society is a key to its workings and power structures. The history of scribal culture must treat written objects in three dimensions: as material object, as social practice and as text. This book emphasises the materiality of writing, and sees literacy as a social practice

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The Babylonian Scribes and Their Libraries,but became the language of a dead and esoteric culture. This chapter examines the status of scientific writing in Mesopotamia on the basis of the examples of the libraries of Babylon and Nineveh. It discusses the transmission of the Mesopotamian intellectual tradition through the medium of scribal p

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Paper World: The Materiality of Loss in the Pre-Modern Age,epositories and a culture sensitive to the material evanescence of the written word. Paper was fragile compared to more durable parchment, but both media became players in a drama that saw unceasing documentary production mirrored by its loss and obliteration. On one hand, loss resulted from insuffi

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Writings on the Streets: Ephemeral Texts and Public Space in the Early Modern Hispanic World, both Spain and its empire, it investigates the material characteristics of public writing, the places where it was published and reception practices. It describes a process which combined different communication technologies, namely the spoken word, writing and sometimes visual culture. In consider