The Oxford Handbook Of Latin Palaeography

Author : Frank T. Coulson
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0195336941
Total Pages : 1075 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography written by Frank T. Coulson and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious heritage of the West. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography surveys these books, with special emphasis on the variety of scripts in which they were written. Palaeography, in the strictest sense, examines how the changing styles of script and the fluctuating shapes of individual letters allow the date and the place of production of books to be determined. More broadly conceived, palaeography examines the totality of early book production, ownership, dissemination, and use. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography includes essays on major types of script (Uncial, Insular, Beneventan, Visigothic, Gothic, etc.), describing what defines these distinct script types, and outlining when and where they were used. It expands on previous handbooks of the subject by incorporating select essays on less well-studied periods and regions, in particular late mediaeval Eastern Europe. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography is also distinguished from prior handbooks by its extensive focus on codicology and on the cultural settings and contexts of mediaeval books. Essays treat of various important features, formats, styles, and genres of mediaeval books, and of representative mediaeval libraries as intellectual centers. Additional studies explore questions of orality and the written word, the book trade, glossing and glossaries, and manuscript cataloguing. The extensive plates and figures in the volume will provide readers wtih clear illustrations of the major points, and the succinct bibliographies in each essay will direct them to more detailed works in the field.

Author : Bernhard Bischoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521367264
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin Palaeography written by Bernhard Bischoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-04-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. Designed as a textbook, it contains a full and updated bibliography. Because the volume sets the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it also provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture. It will be used extensively in the teaching of latin palaeography, and is unlikely to be superseded.

Author : Sir Edward Maunde Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography written by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Edward Maunde Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book Handbook of Greek and Latin Palæography written by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Edward Maunde Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
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Download or read book An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography written by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Derolez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521803151
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books written by Albert Derolez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and highly illustrated survey of medieval book hands, essential for graduate students and scholars of the period.

Author : Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199843694
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology written by Roger S. Bagnall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Here experts provide a comprehensive guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence.

Author : Vanessa Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190083735
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography written by Vanessa Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts. Epigraphy and palaeography are two distinct, but closely related, ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images. This Handbook stresses technical issues about recording text and art and interpretive questions about what we do with those records and why we do it. It offers readers three key things: a diachronic perspective, covering all ancient Egyptian scripts from prehistoric Egypt through the Coptic era (fourth millennium BCE-first half of first millennium CE), a look at recording techniques that considers the past, present, and future, and a focus on the experiences of colleagues. The diachronic perspective illustrates the range of techniques used to record different phases of writing in different media. The consideration of past, present, and future techniques allows readers to understand and assess why epigraphy and palaeography is or was done in a particular manner by linking the aims of a particular effort with the technique chosen to reach those aims. The choice of techniques is a matter of goals and the records' work circumstances, an inevitable consequence of epigraphy being a double projection: geometrical, transcribing in two dimensions an object that exists physically in three; and mental, an interpretation, with an inevitable selection among the object's defining characteristics. The experiences of colleagues provide a range of perspectives and opinions about issues such as techniques of recording, challenges faced in the field, and ways of reading and interpreting text and image. These accounts are interesting and instructive stories of innovation in the face of scientific conundrum.

Author : Elizabeth Jeffreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199252467
Total Pages : 1053 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies written by Elizabeth Jeffreys and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.

Author : Edward Maunde Thompson, Sir
Publisher : London, Paul
ISBN 13 : 9780598859952
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography written by Edward Maunde Thompson, Sir and published by London, Paul. This book was released on 1893 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: